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From: Frode =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tenneb=F8?= <frode@tennebo.com>
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Subject: Re: Optimising string handling in application
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 23:42:24 +0200
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On Friday 04 April 2003 19:43 tmoran@acm.org wrote:

>> However, sometimes I miss the expressionness of perl:
>>
>> s/([^;]*;ME001=)([^;]*)(;[^;]*)/$1$callsign$3/;
> 
> What does that do if "ME001=" or the ';' aren't present?
> 
> What does "expressionness" mean?  Does:

You missed to quote the ";-)". Apart from some trouble spelling, I was
being ironic. :)

 -Frode

PS: Very nice implementations BTW.

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