note Aristotle <blockquote><p>Second, you must understand that Perl set the bar for regexes when P5 was released over 10 years ago. &#91;…] In that time, a lot of theoretical work has been done.</p></blockquote> <p>You missed the part where the author writes he will be reviewing “a regular expression search algorithm invented by Ken Thompson in the mid-1960s.”</p> <p align="right" class="pmsig pmsig-114691"><i>Makeshifts last the longest.</i></p> 597262 597266