- From: Seaborne, Andy <andy.seaborne@hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:30:21 +0000
- To: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Cc: Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org>, public-rdf-dawg@w3.org
Dave Beckett wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 16:51 -0500, Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote: > > <snip lots> > >>The promised the regexp syntax: >> >>regexp(?x , "regexp"[, "flags"]) > > > Please, use regex - regexp is unpronouncable. > > Also regex is the perl, python and java name for these things. > > Dave > > > Google gives hit counts of: 1,820,000 for regex 1,720,000 for regexp 390,000 for regex java 273,000 for regexp java 355,000 for regex perl 306,000 for regexp perl 207,000 for regex python 160,000 for regexp python 79,100 for regex c# 22,200 for regexp c# 111,000 for regex ruby 147,000 for regexp ruby 907,000 for regex c 470,000 for regexp c 52,500 for regex vb.net 7,690 for regexp vb.net 183,000 for mysql regex 185,000 for mysql regexp So regex comes out higher except for mysql & ruby but it isn't completely overwhelming. Andy
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