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Sun, 13 February 2011 13:33

The Natural Philosoph
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Doug Miller wrote:
> In article <vscel6le4f6810hekfooookik3ircj3ue3(at)4ax(dot)com>, evan(at)theobvious(dot)espphotography(dot)com(dot)invalid wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:23:54 -0500, Jerry Stuckle
>> <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, Evan, you've just proven you are ignorant and a troll. You
>>> aren't even intelligent enough to understand when he's right.
>> What part of "Well, it didn't work for me, so if it works for someone
>> else, more power to them." did you not understand?
>
> If it didn't work for you, clearly you implemented it wrong. Or, as seems more
> likely, you didn't actually try it at all.
>
> Here's a formal proof that Richard's method is correct:
>
> Let A be the string <a>\r\n<b>, and B the string <c>\n<d>,where <a>, <b>, <c>,
> and <d> are any arbitrary strings not containing "\n". The first operation,
> replace all "\r\n" with "\n", changes A to <a>\n<b> and leaves B untouched.
> The second operation, replace all "\n" with "\r\n", changes A to <a>\r\n<b>,
> and B to <c>\r\n<d>, which is the specified result: change \n to \r\n except
> when \n is immediately preceded with \r.
>
> If you would dispute that proof, demonstrate the flaw in it, or post a
> counterexample. Otherwise, you owe Richard an apology.
>
> Time to man up, Evan.
>
Indeed. simple problems like this, it's easy to construct state machines
for, and examine every possible combination, and produce totally
reliable bug free code. Sadly such examples are few and far between.

As someone else pointed out tho, what about a single '\r'?

Whether you implement the sate machine in a regexp, simple replacement
with string functions, or write a straight copying loop that examines
characters and pairs of characters and makes instant decisions on the
basis of comparison, is down to taste.

In terms of CPU time, its a one pass loop if you do teh latter, and ver
efficient.

Regexps are the least efficient and the most impenetrable, but they make
people feel smart, so they have their place. They hark back to the days
of teletypes and paper tapes, when code terseness was overwhelmingly
important, and all coding was done and checked on a bit of paper with a
pencil, before being laboriously entered onto The Computer. There being
only one, and far too few teletypes or time allowed on it for more than
one crack.

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		How do I do this search and replace? By: laredotornado@zipmail on Sat, 12 February 2011 21:15
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: richard on Sat, 12 February 2011 21:20
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Evan Platt on Sat, 12 February 2011 22:09
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: sheldonlg on Sat, 12 February 2011 23:59
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Tim Streater on Sun, 13 February 2011 00:08
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Evan Platt on Sun, 13 February 2011 00:24
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 13 February 2011 00:40
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: richard on Sun, 13 February 2011 01:03
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: richard on Sun, 13 February 2011 00:58
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: richard on Sun, 13 February 2011 00:57
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Evan Platt on Sun, 13 February 2011 01:14
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 13 February 2011 01:23
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Evan Platt on Sun, 13 February 2011 01:29
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 13 February 2011 01:38
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Evan Platt on Sun, 13 February 2011 01:54
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 13 February 2011 02:00
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: spambait on Sun, 13 February 2011 13:16
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 13 February 2011 13:33
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: me on Sun, 13 February 2011 13:45
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: sheldonlg on Sun, 13 February 2011 13:48
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 13 February 2011 13:51
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: spambait on Mon, 14 February 2011 01:58
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Denis McMahon on Mon, 14 February 2011 02:25
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: The Natural Philosoph on Mon, 14 February 2011 09:51
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: sheldonlg on Mon, 14 February 2011 12:50
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 14 February 2011 12:58
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Denis McMahon on Mon, 14 February 2011 15:34
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 14 February 2011 17:57
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: spambait on Sun, 13 February 2011 01:48
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 13 February 2011 02:01
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Evan Platt on Sun, 13 February 2011 02:05
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 13 February 2011 02:13
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Evan Platt on Sun, 13 February 2011 02:33
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 13 February 2011 02:44
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Evan Platt on Sun, 13 February 2011 02:49
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 13 February 2011 02:53
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: me on Sun, 13 February 2011 13:32
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 13 February 2011 13:37
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 13 February 2011 13:53
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Denis McMahon on Sun, 13 February 2011 04:16
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: richard on Sun, 13 February 2011 04:34
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Evan Platt on Sun, 13 February 2011 04:50
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: richard on Sun, 13 February 2011 05:35
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Evan Platt on Sun, 13 February 2011 06:11
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: sheldonlg on Sun, 13 February 2011 13:19
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 13 February 2011 13:56
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Evan Platt on Sun, 13 February 2011 15:09
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 13 February 2011 15:19
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Denis McMahon on Sat, 12 February 2011 22:03
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: BootNic on Sat, 12 February 2011 22:51
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 13 February 2011 00:21
		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: Curtis Dyer on Mon, 14 February 2011 09:01
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		Re: How do I do this search and replace? By: The Natural Philosoph on Mon, 14 February 2011 09:55
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