use Perl

• Subversive Regex (Score:1)

  by Dom2 (2981)

  Split is a subversive use of a regex though... Really, you meant to use Parse::RecDescent, right? :-)

  -Dom
  • Re:Subversive Regex (Score:1)

    by TeeJay (2309)

    Yes

    I mean its often better to attack a problem with tr, split, etc rather than building a regex to solve a problem thats already solved by a pattern based function, even using a glob or some other function.

    Of course if there is a module that parses something better - be is Parse::Excel, DBD::CSV or Parse::RecDescent (eeek! grammars!!) then we should use those.

    I was just surprised that I wrote a huge and awkward regex to parse lines of IIS logs when they were a space seperated list with a handy dandy c

    --
    
    @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
    print reverse @JAPH;