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Originally Posted by chaley
The template functions 'contains', 'switch', and 're' use regexps. After all, templates manipulate text, and when manipulating text, regexps are the best there is.  |
Without wanting to derail this thread: I've seen that again yesterday while parsing file names. What normally would have been a painful exercise in C/C++ was as easy as just matching a regexp to the names in Python. (I didn't work out, but the filename parsing wasn't to blame.)