[fpc-pascal] CSV via PCRE

Bee bisma at brawijaya.ac.id
Sun Nov 11 09:54:20 CET 2007


> Not everyone knows how to tie his shoelaces.

One who doesn't tie his shoelaces doesn't mean he doesn't know how to do 
it. ;)

> Regular expressions are no more against the spirit of Pascal
> than associative arrays (hash tables) or any other feature
> that is added by using a unit.

http://z505.com/cgi-bin/qkcont/qkcont.cgi?p=Regex%20vs%20Maintainability%20Graph

IMO, it's a nice read. Personally, I agree with many of points in this 
article.

Of course regex is important and very useful. But it has its own 
advantages and disadvantages, like everything else. There are situations 
or conditions where some programmers prefer to use his own custom but 
readable and maintainable parsing code over regex cryptic syntax.

-Bee-

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