[Ruby] Top Posting (was: regex question)

[Ryan Davis]

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A: Yes
Q: Is top-posting bad?
  — Derek Milhous Zumsteg


On Feb 12, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Neil Moomey wrote:

> I like the O'Reilly book "Mastering Regular Expressions" but it's  
> not the
> best quick reference book.  Regular expressions are the same with all
> languages so don't be put off if it's not a Ruby book.
>
> Neil
>
> On 2/12/07, shaners becker <veganstraightedge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> i have two questions about regexs:
>>
>> 1. what's a good starting resource for learning regex? someone told
>> me about some ajaxy site that teaches the beginning in and outs of
>> regex. anyone know of that?
>>
>> 2. just in textmate, i'm trying to do a find and replace that needs a
>> regex. its an xml file and i want to remove all of one type of tag
>> and its contents. say the tag is "book":
>>
>> <book>moby dick</book>
>>
>> how do i say find all: <book>...anything here...</book>?
>>
>> thanks
>> shaners
>>
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