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Re:Regular Expression Matching can be Ugly and Slow by fragmede on Sunday March 14, 2010 @11:36AM (#1190770)
The original quote is: “If you have a problem and you think awk(1) is the solution, then you have two problems.” -David Tilbrook (http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247)
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Re:Regular Expression Matching can be Ugly and Slow by icefox on Sunday March 14, 2010 @05:21PM (#1191337)
What if my only other choice was sed or perl?
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