Mark Bixby writes:

> Regexps can be intimidating for novices to look at, but
> they offer INCREDIBLE power for just a few keystrokes that would be truly
> tedious and painful to duplicate the old pre-POSIX MPE ways.

Kinda shows that APL was *way* ahead of its time.

> Take the time to learn regular expressions; you'll be glad you did.
> Go into the POSIX shell and type:
>
>        man regexp

Another resource, which I've not yet had time to peruse personally
(but of which I've heard favourable comments), is O'Reilly's
"Mastering Regular Expressions":

   http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/

--Glenn, who just noticed O'Reilly's "Conference on Enterprise Java"
         is coming soon: http://conferences.oreilly.com/java2001/