Re: [PATTERN MATCHING]

From: A. Sinan Unur (1usa_at_llenroc.ude.invalid)
Date: 12/17/04 

Date: 17 Dec 2004 21:51:02 GMT

Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@gunnar.cc> wrote in
news:32h24kF3n7ercU1@individual.net:

> A. Sinan Unur wrote:
>> On second thought, another cheap shot:

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> Yeah, *that* was cheap. :)

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I know, I know.

> Well, I never said you don't need to be attentive to what you are doing
> when playing with substr() and index(). Just that it may be more
> efficient...

Mine was just an indirect way of trying to fix the OP's terminology and
also guide him toward a document which he should benefit from by reading in
its entirety.

I suspect that the OP's problem may involve inappropriate (or
inconsistent) use of double quotes as well as failing to quote the regex-
special characters, but this is just a suspicion since the OP did not show
real code and real data.

I did originally think about posting an index/substr based solution but too
many special cases kept pop up in my mind. Then I remembered Sedgewick's
treatment of search and replace in C, and I gave up.

Hope you had fun. I did :)

Sinan.

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