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Posted by Curtis on 12/20/06 11:33
"Kimmo Laine" <s...@outolempi.net> wrote:
> When you keep hitting your head to a brick wall long
> time enough, you'll eventually learn to go around it or become a graphic
> designer.
LOL
> The basic problem was that RegExp's were never mentioned when I was back in
> school learning all this programming shit so I had no basic understanding of
> it when I started writing php 9 to 5. But I eventually got it.
I was in a similar situation. When I started programming, I was
bouncing back and forth between Perl and PHP, all the while trying to
grasp regex in between. It was very difficult for me to wrap my mind
around it at first, so I generally tried to stay away. But I was in a
sort of love-hate relationship, as I found the incessant challenge
somewhat alluring. Before I knew it, I realized I was able to
incorporate regex into a great deal of my programming, and it
ironically has become one of my strongest areas. Strange, I always
found that all the regex tutorials I read always started out very easy,
and out of nowhere became insanely hard to follow. Learning by doing
was definitely the way I learned how to use them practically.
To the OP, if you are struggling with regex, I would recommend making
use of the /x modifier so that you can separate your patterns with
whitespace.
Curtis
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