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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/23/15 10:13 AM, jgpacker wrote:<br>
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<div>I don't understand the insistence in using regexes as some
kind of argument against semicolon lists.<br>
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A semicolon list is an extremely simple pattern.<br>
Such a pattern can be easily parsed even WITHOUT regexes.<br>
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<div>Me and other developers in this thread (Imagic, Friedrich,
David, Dmitry, Marc) are trying to tell you semicolons are not
a problem.<br>
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+1<br>
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competent languages provide simple mechanisms for splitting<br>
strings on single characters. sometimes the function is even<br>
called "split"<br>
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richard<br>
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