Text manipulation

Ron Rosenfeld wrote...
....
>I will need to keep that in mind. Clearly I have insufficient experience with
>regular expressions to have run into some of the issues you have mentioned.
>
>I will need to think more about the backtracking issues in order to better
>understand what you write. As well as the pros and cons of trying to avoid
>assertions.
....

If you want to get a real grounding in regular expressions, read
Jeffrey Friedl's book 'Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Ed.', ISBN
0-596-00289-0. Lots of discussion about backtracking and optimizing
regular expessions.

On 2 Jan 2006 19:05:16 -0800, "Harlan Grove" <hrlngrv@aol.com> wrote:

>Ron Rosenfeld wrote...
>...
>>I will need to keep that in mind. Clearly I have insufficient experience with
>>regular expressions to have run into some of the issues you have mentioned.
>>
>>I will need to think more about the backtracking issues in order to better
>>understand what you write. As well as the pros and cons of trying to avoid
>>assertions.
>...
>
>If you want to get a real grounding in regular expressions, read
>Jeffrey Friedl's book 'Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Ed.', ISBN
>0-596-00289-0. Lots of discussion about backtracking and optimizing
>regular expessions.

Thanks. Just ordered a copy from Amazon.


--ron