[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at nz.invalid
Wed Jan 10 15:00:05 EST 2024


On 10 Jan 2024 10:00:57 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:

> Personally, I think regexps are overrated! And I first started using
> them in 1975.

How about starting with a simple thing, like being able to treat multiple 
separators as one:

    re.split(r"\s+", "the quick  brown    fox")

giving

    ['the', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox']



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