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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Characters that must be escaped to work in a VIm Regular Expression +, ?, \|, {, }, (, and ) must be escaped to use their special function. I love regex as a rule. I'm not as big a fan of individual implementations of its concepts. Couldn't figure out how to get X repetitions of a pattern while searching in VIm, and it's because { has to have a \ to work. Who knew? Voodoo. What up with that? So if I'm looking for table names over 30 characters in a text file (as Oracle doesn't like identifiers over 30 chars -- spits it out), the "right" regex is... `/[A-Z_]{30}` But for VIm it's: `/[A-Z_]\{30\}` (Yes, characters in the name must be caps or underscores) Profit. Labels: noteToSelf, regexp, vim posted by ruffin at 6/13/2012 01:25:00 PM

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URLs I want to remember:
* Atari 2600 programming on your Mac	* joel on software (tip pt)
* Professional links: resume, github, paltry StackOverflow	* Regular Expression Introduction (copy)
* The hex editor whose name I forget	* JSONLint to pretty-ify JSON
* Using CommonDialog in VB 6	* Free zip utils
* git repo mapped drive setup	* Regex Tester
* Read the bits about the zone	* Find column in sql server db by name
* Giant ASCII Textifier in Stick Figures (in Ivrit)	* Quick intro to Javascript
* Don't [over-]sweat "micro-optimization"	* Parsing str's in VB6
* .ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); (src)	* Break on a Lenovo T430: Fn+Alt+B
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