[ale] Reg ex foo

Tue May 14 08:26:03 EDT 2013

Well, every dialect is orthogonal within itself.

-- CHS

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

>   So maybe it should be called irregex instead?****
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> In (non-computer) languages such as French you have “regular” verbs that
> follow standard conjugation patterns (e.g. “ir”, “er” and “re” verbs).
> Those that don’t follow that pattern (e.g. etre [to be]) are call
> “irregular”.****
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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Charles
> Shapiro
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:02 AM
> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
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> *Subject:* Re: [ale] Reg ex foo****
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> Oracle's regular expression dialect differs from PostgreSQL's. The Oracle
> 11g version lacks backslash digit specifiers. That means that in a
> PostgreSQL regular expression, "\x21" = "!", but not in Oracle's.
>
> Java's interpretation of regular expressions differs from both databases.
> Perl offers you a choice of regular expression interpreters, all slightly
> different. Python does things in its own way too. Shell file grouping uses
> only a small subset of the regular expression vocabulary.  sed(1), vi(1),
> and ed(1) are all the same, but different from the other 6 cases.****
>
> Of course all this keeps us in business. Think of it, if regex were
> consistent then any fool could learn to code! ( heh).****
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> -- CHS****
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> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> ****
>
> no relation to oracle or regex. Just everyone hates oracle.****
>
> And yes. egrep is grep -E is gnu grep. In RHELland,  you do have to use
> grep -E to turn on extended regex so stuff like:****
>
> grep -E "foo|bar|ba[zs]{1,3}" will work. That will find foo or bar or bas,
> baz, bazz, bass, bazzz, basss****
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> will work.****
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> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com>
> wrote:****
>
> Clearly I'm missing the joke. What does Oracle license fees have to do
> with extended grep? Is this something different from egrep/grep -E? Isn't
> egrep GNU? What'd I miss?****
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> *From: *"Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> *To: *"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> *Sent: *Monday, May 13, 2013 4:21:31 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [ale] Reg ex foo****
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> I thought Oracle licensing was handshake that started simultaneously at
> _both_ ends of the digestive track with a meeting in the middle. That would
> explain that queasy feeling one gets just reading the thing.****
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> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Doug Hall <doughalldev at gmail.com> wrote:*
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> Ahh yes, extended grep.That's when ORACLE reaches down your throat in
> search of your testicles. Hey, Hawaiian islands cost a little!****
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> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> ****
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> I was thinking soul buy-back cost after using Oracle.****
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> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:56 AM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:***
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> Oracle license fees****
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> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Tim Watts <tim at cliftonfarm.org> wrote:**
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> Assuming "multi-line matching" is on, a line followed by 3 empty lines?***
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> On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 10:43 -0400, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me what $$$$ is supposed to match in an extended grep??
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