[Info-vax] Looking for some text search ideas
Paul Sture
nospam at sture.ch
Sat Sep 27 08:01:30 EDT 2014
On 2014-09-27, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> In article <o1iifb-02c1.ln1 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>>On 2014-09-27, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>>> But now you mention a "regular expression engine". Never heard of such.
>>> Guess I need to look up the term to see what it's about. Maybe time
>>> for this old dog to learn something new.
>>
>>"Regular expressions" (rexex or rexexp for short) are not an easy concept
>>to get your head around. At first glance it's incomprehensible Geekery
>>expressed as gibberish. You might want to delegate here :-)
>
> "Regular expressions" are incomprehensible Geekery expressed as gibberish
> to denote WHAT to search for but it does NOT specify the mechanics of HOW
> to search for it!
True, but Craig specifically mentioned the word "engine" and then Jan-Erik
mentioned "libraries". It's always a compromise though. If there aren't
such libraries available for the flavour of Basic David is using then he's
going to get into the joys of the system management side of Perl or Python
or... (shouldn't be much, but it's yet another cost in man hours).
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