22 Nov
2000
22 Nov
'00
5:20 p.m.
At 10:58 22.11.2000, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote:
There is a "monster" regular expression made by Tom Christiansen I think. A link is on http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfaq9.html#How_do_I_check_a_v...
Yes, I know this link - especially the absolutely voodoo-style regex by J. Friedl ("Mastering Regular Expressions", O'Reilly). I tried to "pythonify" the regex, but I failed. Python exits with some strange errors. Maybe Python is not that exceptionally good in regex as Perl? *duck* So I'm using the simpler method proposed by Dennis Nichols in this thread. Thanks Dennis! Martin