Flashback 2004: Too much about perl and regexp
Posted Wed, 03 Mar 2010
Continuing the flashback series. Here's 2004.
Still in school. Hacking on countless projects in perl.
While writing a command-line interpreter, I wanted you to be able to type 'st' or 'sta' instead of 'status' and have the code find a best match for your command. This is often called 'ambiguous commands' or somesuch. I came up with a clever way to do this using regular expressions (May 2004).
I also posted about using regular expression to match quoted and nonquoted strings (June 2004).
Finally, I experiment with using regular expressions to find word boundaries near the cursor for my command line interpreter (Oct 2004).
Are you drowning in perl and regular expressions, yet? ;)