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  3.     by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.11.1/8.11.1) id gAKNnSo00793
  4.     for icon-group-addresses; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:49:28 -0700 (MST)
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  6. From: "jsampson-indexer" <jsampson@indexes.u-net.com>
  7. To: <icon2002@OptOnLine.net>, <icon-group@cs.arizona.edu>
  8. Subject: RE: tab in regex
  9. Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:05:02 -0000
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  16.  
  17. Hello -
  18.  
  19. Thanks for the advice, I'll do some tweaking.
  20.  
  21. > [BTW, what is your application that's prompting the use of regex's?
  22. >  I always found Icon's native pattern-matching to be more powerful,
  23. >  & easy to trace.]
  24.  
  25. I know real Iconeers don't use regex's, but the program I am using takes
  26. them as user input - being brief one-liners they are suitable for this. In
  27. my case here I think mapping tabs to another character and then back again
  28. is probably the best kludge. The program searches tab-delimited data files
  29. so the tab char has to be distinguished from other white-space chars.
  30.  
  31. Regards
  32.  
  33. _John Sampson_
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