Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool2.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!fuug!funic!santra!santra!ppessi From: ppessi@niksula.hut.fi (Pekka Pessi) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: How wrong is MS-DOS? (or: What is the definition of obsolete) Message-ID: Date: 12 Jan 91 21:27:45 GMT References: <3120@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11143@lanl.gov> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 12 In-Reply-To: jlg@lanl.gov's message of 11 Jan 91 23:58:10 GMT In article <11143@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes: >Regular expressions are usually covered in the first week of any good >compiler course. Once you know the basics, a brute force grep should >only require a few hours to write from scratch. The tool isn't useful >often enough to lavish lots of optimizations on it. Save that kind >of effort for a regular expression search tool that's callable as a >library function - that's where you need it - built-in to other tools. See regex(3). So you are not ignorant about Unix? -- Pekka Pessi / ppessi@niksula.hut.fi