No silly song. The best way to start thinking regexes, is to use them. Write a lot of perl :) I learned by doing regex search and replaces in VIM, and moved on from there. You might want to pick up the mastering regular expressions o'reilly book. John Wheat spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: > Good Day, > > I am seeking help to memorize, utilize, and gain basic proficiency > with regular expressions and sed, grep, egrep searches and the like. > When I read something like \^{a-r}\ my brain for lack of a bettwer way > to say it believes this to be a ctl-d and stops all processing. So if > you have a tool or an acronym or perhaps a silly song you have made up > that would help me learn this aspect of CLI interaction would you please > share that information with me. > > John Wheat > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss