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Friday, 24 March 2006
The Art of Regexp
Spike Jones 1

I put up the following regular expression on my whiteboard, just to see how long it takes before someone here at work identifies its purpose:

((?:\d{4})[A-Z]\d{2}(?:SDC|SMS|MDC)\d{2})

I know \d\d is shorter than \d{2}, but I think the latter is more elegant.


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(Runs and hides from scary algebra-looking thing)
Posted by Ginevra on 3 Apr 2006 19:30