Hrm, looks like my FA classes didn't quite sink in.
<sigh> the question was: is there a way to strip
shell-style comments (# blah). As it turns out, this perl
regexp does the trick.... (from bod)
s/^((([^\\"#]+|"[^\\"]*(\\.[^\\"]*)*")*|(\\.)*)*)(#.*)?/$1/I had argued that you cannot do this with a standard (FA) regular expression, but as aj pointed out to me, this shouldn't be the case. So, as an exercise for the reader, rewrite that in a form that sed recognizes.... :-)
So I have a question: why would anyone care and want to
read what I did today?
Am attending a Microsoft MTS class this week (please, no
rotten eggs...). One of the things we discussed was that
reliability and scalability are mutually exclusive; you
cannot have one without the other. Seems like many MS users
do take that for granted.
Been trying to recuperate from a rather bad case of carpal
tunnel. It comes and goes; for some reason, I never had
problems when I was back in school, and I definitely did a
lot more typing back then.. hmmm....
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