Re: Java's Regexp Sucks!!!

From:
Lew <ZombifiedPriest@lewscanon.zombies.mil>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:14:57 GMT
Message-ID:
<57368591553892039082@216.154.158.67>
Morris Vincenzoni wrote:

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, kramer31 wrote:

What is this CDATA crap?


What CDATA crap?

Seriously, i don't know what you mean. CDATA is an XML thing, not a
regexp thing. I suspect you're confused. Is it that you;re using some
file format where regexps live in an XML document, and you've failed to
understand the boundary between the two?

Why didn't Sun just rip off Perl's regexp syntax and OOify it


That's exactly what they did.

Fancy-schmancy java crap.


You're an idiot. Get off my newsgroup. HTH.


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