Talk:Regular expression examples

message: This page contains examples of perl regular expressions.  There are many other kinds!  Perl isn't the first, most common, or only language that supports regexes... sed, for example, probably has a larger installed base and certainly was written long before perl.
It's like we made a page that showed nothing but Ford F-150 pickups and titled it "Examples of motorized vehicles".  It's not entirely wrong, yet very misleading to anyone who is not already an expert.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.153.180.229 (talk) 17:14, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Not titled well

message: The last example is wrong, as of 09 Mar 2006.
--Jidanni 2006-04-16
:It worked fine for me:
 $ cat pt
 $string1 = "Hello World\n";
 if ($string1 =~ m/[^abc]/) {
   print "$string1 does not contain the characters ";
   print "a, b, and c\n";
 }
 $ perl pt
 Hello World
  does not contain the characters a, b, and c
: -- Unixguy 15:45, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the explanation, Randal. I see that -Barry- has fixed the message to be accurate, as you indicated. --Unixguy 11:13, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  last example wrong 

message: If you have questions, please see WP:TPA and note:
* has a good title;
* starts with a clear description;
* is nearly self-contained; and
* is clear
Some change is appropriate to ensure this article does not come under attack as being unencyclopedic, non-notable or otherwise not providing sufficient context to justify a stand-alone article. dr.ef.tymac 14:03, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WP_TPA_Upgrade: Going to add to this article to address some deficiencies  

message: This article currently offers nothing that isn't found on a thousand other simple regex tutorial pages and help files. Plus, it is Perl specific. Why does this article even exist? --Monger 00:15, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's the point of this article? 

message: It might be worthwhile to pick one example and show how to implement it in different languages. For example, PHP users would benefit knowing it's PCRE (preg) and not POSIX (ereg). A side benefit to this might be the ability to simply list the other expressions in a table without language specific syntax although I'm unsure about that, I do like actual working examples and Perl is certainly the proper choice for that. Maybe others have thoughts on these topics. Philipolson (talk) 10:15, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explaining how to use in other languages 

message: This article does contain some useful content and would make a great addition to the Regular expressions article.
I must agree with Xosé that this article should be merged rather than being deleted. To further this proposition, I have posted the merger template on the top of the article.
--Alex rosenberg35 (talk) 05:33, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger into the [[Regular Expressions]] article 

message: to the concept of regular expressions, than using 'hello world' from a C program.
example.. perhaps Shakespeare or poetry or a famous speech.
just an idea. Decora (talk) 21:11, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  i think there might be other options for introducing the public