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RegEx

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Monday, April 14 2003 @ 04:26 pm EDT

I've always appreciated the power of regular expressions.

But their syntax always make me thinks of the tiles of a Scrabble board, combined with a mosiac of ^$%! characters. Similiarly I've never been an active user of Perl or vi. I always spend more time refreshing myself in a reference book than programming. Makes me appreciate the readability of PHP.

Did you just force yourself to memorize the syntax and use it regularly enough you don't forget, or do you have any crutches you could recommend?

RegEx

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Tuesday, April 15 2003 @ 12:15 am EDT

Well, with the regex it is a combination of learning that regexp are really a seperate language, its a language on how to match/parse characters. Then learning the language ;)

I would reccomend mastering regular expressions (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/). It's a great book, It contains a lot of information you might not want, but those are in the later chapters.

I understand that most people just want to jump in on regular expressions there really isnt any better way than to read some.

As for vi/vim I personally have been using vi for over 7 years, using it well for about 5. If you use vimtutor you should start to get the hang of it.

The major hurdle with vi is understanding that it is a mode based editor. You have a seperate mode to edit vs sending commands to the editor. vimtutor should get you started, and if you want to master vi, I would suggest learning the vi editor, also by oreilly (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vi5).

I know more boring reading ;) however, if you use vi long enough it pays for itself many times over.

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