Dear Colleague,

This is to remind you of the following ACM event.

Regards, - Durgesh

ACM Seminar Friday, July 20, 2001 - 6:30 p.m. Title: Regular Expressions Speaker: Philip Tellis Venue: Lecture Theatre, NCST, Juhu

Abstract: Whether you're a programmer, system administrator, or just someone who wants to run a very finely tuned search, regular expressions make your job much simpler - if you know how to use them well. A regex is a grammar, built specifically to match patterns in large amounts of text. Once you start using regular expressions, you'll wonder how you ever got along without them.

Languages like awk, perl, python, elisp, etc. and editors like vi and emacs have built-in regular expression parsers, while the unix command line provides us with the all powerful grep and sed.

We will introduce regular expressions using some common shell utilities, and then proceed to look at advanced concepts in perl.

So, as they say at Bell Labs Unix: Reach out and grep someone.

About the Speaker: Philip Tellis has been programming in various languages since 1985. He started using Unix and perl as late as 1999, and never looked back. He uses regular expressions during the course of a normal day. Be it writing perl, shell scripting, grepping his file system, or just a file in vi, the regex is something he cannot do without.

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