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Re: [Omaha.pm] regex's on steroids



On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Jay Hannah <jay@jays.net> wrote:
Wow. Chris is a Perl regex genius:
http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/bioperl-l/2008-August/028094.html
I whip out the occasional zero-width negative look-behind assertion, but apparently Chris and 'Mastering Regular Expressions' know a lot more than I do.  :)

I think a little spring in my head just went *sproing*...

Wow, add complex regexp to the list of things that the original programmer has to support after he dies...  (or at least document very VERY well!)

Dan

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