Just this in my email:

Those people who find difficulties with regular expression might find this useful:

The Regex Coach is a graphical application for Linux and Windows which can be used to experiment with Perl-compatibleregular expressions interactively.
http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/

Opec, that's completely useless in every way conceivable, and I hate you for sharing it

You know you love regex Jim.

That's really, really cool

Nice find. Love/Hate AWK expressions

Ok to us non-f***ing-uber-nerds what the hell does this do?

Regular Expressions - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/helpsheets/regex.html

Regular expressions trace back to the work of an American mathematician by the name of Stephen Kleene (one of the most influential figures in the development of theoretical computer science) who developed regular expressions as a notation for describing what he called "the algebra of regular sets." His work eventually found its way into some early efforts with computational search algorithms, and from there to some of the earliest text-manipulation tools on the Unix platform (including ed and grep). In the context of computer searches, the "*" is formally known as a "Kleene star."

Pauline told me to hate opec.

Ok to us non-f***ing-uber-nerds what the hell does this do?

if you have to ask, u dont need it;

ok then! :)

if you have to ask, u dont need it;

Muahahahaa.