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In response to "Uh? Like old school barely recognizable limited characters commands? Like if one programmed using only the Vic 20 symbolic shortcuts?" by JD

A regular expression can start simply... if letter "a" replace with letter "b".

Posted by Mop (aka rburriel) Jun 25 '17, 17:45

But it can escalate quickly as you start using ranges. If "jan" ... "dec", replace with "1" ... "12". And then there are conditionals and case sensitivity and ... yeah it can be mind bending.

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Oh! But if one wrote a program only using such a concept, it would take at least a second pass to figure out what the hell is going on (well second - JD Jun 25, 17:51 1
- I'm not following anymore. - Mop Jun 25, 19:00

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A regular expression can start simply... if letter "a" replace with letter "b".

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