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Oh, no argument there, though being "highly annoyed" may point to some grumpiness. It is clearly not a regex engine, but it operates like a very very naive one
by nicpottier 16y ago
Oh, no argument there, though being "highly annoyed" may point to some grumpiness.
It is clearly not a regex engine, but it operates like a very very naive one, and uses the Perl syntax for them.
Ultimately Regex just seemed like the easiest / clearest way of describing the functionality. IE, if I say "Skype supports the Perl Regex syntax for simple word substitution" you probably instantly think of s/a/b/.
Maybe I should have used that as the headline, but it seemed a bit long.
- zeugma 16y agoHistoricaly it is more a sed like syntax..
- Dylan16807 16y agoAnd 'sed' is even easier to say than 'perl regex'!
- j_baker 16y agoI probably would have said "It supports sed-like substitution" (or maybe even s/sed-like/vim-like/). Generally speaking, regular expressions denotes finding something while this does more than that. Regardless, this level of pedantry shouldn't come as a surprise on HN (I admit to being guilty of it myself).