> Phenomenally Exquisite Regex Language
I’ve been asked to point out that my proferred solution to your problem has been written in Perl. Are you surprised? Did you not notice? Is this revelation a bombshell?
I must confess that I find this request bizarre in the extreme, since anybody who can’t figure that out from looking at the very first line of my program surely has other mental disabilities as well.
It is true that not all other tools and programming languages are quite as convenient, expressive, and powerful when it comes to regexes as Perl is. There’s a big spectrum out there, wi…