(Submitted to ahbou by Robert Gaines. Thanks, Bob!)

Subject: Re: Filtering: How does one filter out exclamation points?
From: AUNTIESPAM.dstreeter@ameritech.net (David S)
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent

On Mon, 04 Aug 1997 19:19:12 -0400, rey@mindspring.com (Dick Yuknavech) wrote:

>IIRC, sed, egrep, awk, ex(vi) and the rest all played kind of fast and
>loose with regexps. We were saved because for the most part the
>differences showed up at levels that the casual user wouldn't encounter
>(and would blame himself if he did run afoul of one). Really, I have in
>my checkered past put together some sed commands that absolutely amazed
>me the next day. And I remember once being in the middle of a QED
>command when a co-worker walked in. He watched over my shoulder, as I
>obviously intended to finish before enabling interrupts. Finally he
>blurted out: "What the F... are you doing???" In spite of that, the
>only times I ever got *seriously* into regexps involved lex (yeah,
>surprise). And all the implementations of lex that I've worked with said
>that /cd+/ matched, e.g. cdddd..., and NOT cdcdcd.
>
>If Forte is willing to put it to a vote, I vote for lex compatibility
>(aside: I think you do too, Jim... as far as I can tell it's what you've
>been asking for).
>
>Actually, I vaguely remember seeing a description of regular expressions
>that attempted to define what was Blessed for Unix, and what was not.
>Does anyone else remember such a thing? (I reserve the right to be
>hallucinating) Can you find it? Do we want to show it to Forte?

All of the above: ---> _____

My head: .......----->...O

Is that a regular enough expression?

David Streeter

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