[pcre-dev] [Bug 1203] desired features: match-and-substitute…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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Subject: [pcre-dev] [Bug 1203] desired features: match-and-substitute and permutations
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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1203




--- Comment #8 from Philip Hazel <ph10@???> 2012-01-29 11:15:09 ---
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012, Steve Andrews wrote:

> Thanks. I'm fairly new to regular expressions, so I'm glad to learn about
> lookaheads. Overall though, I'm starting to get the sense that
> standardized regular expressions aren't the right tool for my task. They
> seem to have a huge number of features that I don't need and they aren't
> particularly elegant for the few options that I do need. What I really
> need, I think, is a slightly enhanced version of wildcard matching, and
> that's something that I can write myself fairly easily. Thanks anyhow
> though.


Should you ever want to study regular expressions more, this site is a
good tutorial: http://www.asiteaboutnothing.net/regex/

Philip


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