From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,789b3fa522bdcc2a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-04 13:52:34 PST Message-ID: <3E8DFDE8.5010307@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Optimising string handling in application References: <1049267738.39983@edh3> <1049451208.932382@edh3> <3E8DA417.5010903@psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:49:28 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1049492969 198.96.47.195 (Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:49:29 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:49:29 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35939 Date: 2003-04-04T16:49:28-05:00 List-Id: Robert Spooner wrote: > Frank J. Lhota wrote: > >> "Frode Tenneboe" wrote in message >> news:1049451208.932382@edh3... >> >>> However, sometimes I miss the expressionness of perl: >>> >>> s/([^;]*;ME001=)([^;]*)(;[^;]*)/$1$callsign$3/; >>> >>> ;-) >> >> Why does this remind me of APL? >> > Because it looks like a write only language? > > Bob Naw, it is APL, but he forgot to change to the APL "type ball" (font). ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg