Re: searching and regex miniguide -- now new wiki page
- Posted by _tom (admin) Oct 07, 2010
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To understand what I wrote, here is the history:
- started by looking at the Perl documentation, and found a quick tutorial on regex
- tried to convert the perl tutorial and give it a Euphoria flavor
- recognizing that Euphoria 'native' functions are important, added this content
- the idea then was to show regex and Euphoria routines in parallel
Then, getting tired, I put the first draft up on the wiki.
The problem that remains:
- hard to squeeze a textbook into a few pages
- regex, on its own, is complex enough
- wildcard matching is just different enough from regex to make it confusing
A possible remedy:
- create a new section with only Euphoria functions
- match()
- wildcard()
- maybe string token
- then explain regex
- then show Euphoria vs regex
I will write a second draft and see how these ideas fit together.
Putting the first draft (rough as it was) on the wiki was a good thing. I appreciate the comments and ideas that you are presenting.
_tom
