- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:29:03 +0000
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:18:09 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > I believe that most people using this feature will actually be exposed to > regexps for the first time with this feature. That's very unlikely, and if it is then they'll need good tutorials on the subject, none of which talk about implied ^/$. If they genuinely are new, then this feature is a bad idea, regular expressions are not trivial to get right, and simple testing isn't always enough. > Could you give a realistic example of where that could be a problem? The obvious example is leading and trailing whitespace, this is almost universally accepted and stripped, having to force \s* \s* in the pattern for all these cases is a pain. Together with the lack of consistency with those of us who already have regular expressions in our validation workflow. Jim.
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