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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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