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Alternative regular expression syntax
For a long time I was a believer in the “Perl way” of doing regular expressions and an avid reader of perlre. All other implementations I viewed as a “poor man’s copy” of the one true idea. However, after reading the Lua Patterns Tutorial, I found it quite enlightening. Even though it is called “patterns”…
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Why do I love perl?
Before you accuse me of being a fanboy, I must say that I know that every language has bad sides, but also some incontestable merits. I want to talk about two perl related stories here. They both are a kind of short how-tos, and the morale of the story is that you can find ready…