| Re: Find Strings (Tokens) in File and push them into an array - How? [message #169568 is a reply to message #169566] |
Fri, 17 September 2010 23:50   |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 9/17/2010 5:59 PM, aaaa wrote:
>>> Regular expressions are slow.
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>> Not necessarily. And in most cases their flexibility and powerfulness
>> far outweigh their performance issue.
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> In most cases their debugging takes more time.
> Plus their are plain evil.
> It's like programmers use functions, objects, coding standards and comments
> that make their code in many cases longer, but easier to understand and
> read. Regular expressions are exacly the opposite- hard to read, understand
> and debug. Using regular expressions is like writting obscure code.
>
Regular expressions are not that bad once you understand them. Just
because YOU don't like them doesn't mean they aren't worthwhile. They
are very valuable in many instances.
And the equivalent using non-regex code can be MUCH more complicated.
My suggestion: learn how to use regex's correctly. But I already know
you won't, because you've already made up your mind.
And no, I'm not good at them. But I struggle and still use them,
because they are the best tool for many of the things I run into.
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