| Re: Find Strings (Tokens) in File and push them into an array - How? [message #169593 is a reply to message #169592] |
Sat, 18 September 2010 17:42   |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 9/18/2010 1:08 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
> Michael Fesser<netizen(at)gmx(dot)de> writes:
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>> .oO(aaaa)
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>>> And having 10 lines of fast, idiot understandable code is much better then
>>> having one line of regular expressions.
>>
>> That's just your opinion, not a fact.
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> True, but it's an opinion that's shared by a *lot* of people. When it
> comes to maintenance, ten lines of readable code is *always* better
> than a "clever" one-liner.
>
> sherm--
>
Regex's are not necessarily a "clever one-liner". Rather, if you
understand them, they clarify code immensely.
Sure, a complicated regex will be hard to understand. However, it also
won't be possible to repeat it's effects in just 10 lines of simple code.
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