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Re: How to get the dollar value from this text string?

Any sufficiently complex regular expression is indistinguishable from modem
line noise.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 12:26 PM Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Old school RPGer, young programmers (independent of whether they are
RPGer
or not) all know SQL and Regular Expressions 😉


Do most programmers really understand regular expressions? Especially when
they encounter them in somebody else's code? For me, one-liners are hard to
understand. I've struggled with dyslexia since childhood, which may be part
of the problem.


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