[Info-vax] DCL and scripting
Arne Vajhøj
arne at vajhoej.dk
Thu Dec 13 18:40:35 EST 2018
On 12/12/2018 11:32 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 12/12/2018 9:16 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/12/2018 8:58 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 12/12/2018 8:34 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>> On 12/12/2018 7:49 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> Regex is a bit cryptic. But it can be useful.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I will say that all programmers should know SQL, regex and XPath.
>>>>
>>>> I know some SQL. I don't even know what regex and xpath is.
>>>
>>> regex is a way to find patterns in text.
>>>
>>> XPath is a way to select parts of an XML document.
>>>
>>>> I guess
>>>> according to you I should stick to flying. Oh well, much more fun
>>>> anyway.
>>>>
>>>> Now if it would just warm up ....
>>>
>>> Or maybe something to study during Christmas vacation.
>>>
>>> :-)
>>
>> Simple XPath example in VB.NET:
[code omitted]
> Well, look at what you've done. Now I seem to know more than I wanted
> to know.
>
> Ok, sorry, a bit, for being a wise ass. It just comes so natural.
>
> I don't do much with text, and I seem to do quite well with Instr and
> Parse with XML, which I really do not like, when I need to.
>
> As I may have mentioned before, I like things to be rather easy to
> understand, and I'll take that over complex and powerful many times.
For both regex and XPath I think it works a bit like:
have learned about them => super simple and easy to read
have not learned about them => is this ancient Egyptian put through an
AES-256 encryption?
:-)
> But I believe you were trying to be helpful, and for that, thank you.
Arne
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