"So you've got a problem, and you've decided to solve it with Regular Expressions. Now you've got two problems."

Posted by Joseph on 6/25/2005 11:56 PM | Comments (3)

Funny quote ripped off the Hanselman's weblog. I like regex, but always worry about the maintainability. I think named captures help.

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Darren Neimke on 7/1/2005 1:57 PM I'd love to know who "owns" that quote.  First time I heard it was when Raymond Chen wrote in on Eric Gunnerson's blog a while back:



blogs.msdn.com/.../79909.aspx#80053">blogs.msdn.com/.../79909.aspx#80053
Sean M
Sean M on 7/3/2005 1:03 PM The original quote came from Jamie Zawinski (Who worked on Netscape)



"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions'. Now they have two problems."



Here is the original source:



http://www.jwz.org/hacks/marginal.html">http://www.jwz.org/hacks/marginal.html



Mitch Denny on 7/28/2005 4:11 PM But what else would you use for a legitimate text processing question?
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