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Re: backreferences



On 10/15/2015 09:27 PM, Kurtis Rader wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As a recovering Perl addict I cannot +1 this comment enough. Regular expressions are highly addictive and dangerous. But as Mikael points out it is extremely easy to write a regexp that is worse than worthless.

Indeed. When it goes wrong it can be a spectacular mess. I could never abide the fact that sed doesn't have a confirm mode. There's 'regexxer' that does. Still, what else than regex is there? Is there any avoiding it?



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