THREAD NAVIGATION:

Where am I?   Original message   Top of thread   Current page

Displays all thread messages

Displays thread map

That to which this responds

This thread's lead message

Your most recent Tavern page

Oh, that's a thing called regular expression, 06/11/2013, 12:44:53

ramillies writes: shortly 'regex'. It's good for determining whether a string of characters is in certain form (which is defined by regex). Here [NWSE] means 'any of characters N, W, S, E', {5} means 'exactly five times'. (Sorry for it; as a programmer, I just sometimes use ... say, inappropriate means of expressing myself.) (I don't remember how exactly the answer runs, but it's in my book of MMIII notes. But I think it is (HL)NWNES(stop HL).)

Reply to this message   Back to the Tavern

Replies to this message

Aah, right! It's a l-o-n-g time since I did any programming, ... - Peter2 ( Tue 11-Jun-13 14:28:43 ) +1 Well, I think that when you were active in the programming, it was long before I came to this world. - ramillies ( Tue 11-Jun-13 16:59:39 ) +1 I started out as a Fortran programmer. - Peter2 ( Tue 11-Jun-13 19:53:12 ) +1 Well, I've never heard about any of those games - Ramillies ( Thu 13-Jun-13 13:58:23 ) +1 I was never fond of strategy games. - Peter2 ( Thu 13-Jun-13 19:30:29 ) +1 Assembler? Well, that's a funny language! - Ramillies ( Fri 14-Jun-13 11:04:03 ) +1 There were two things I really didn't like about the Wizardry games. - Peter2 ( Fri 14-Jun-13 15:50:08 ) +1 Well, I wouldn't like those too should I get so far. - Ramillies ( Sat 15-Jun-13 01:19:24 )