Re: poll ideas quest 2009

How do you regularly express "regular expressions"?

Communication is weird. Communication, when one party has no idea what the other means, is weirder. Everyone (well, maybe not everyone) I meet has a different way of saying the phrase 'regular expressions'. How do you?

Regular expressions
Regex
Regexes
Regexp
Regexps
Regexen
Patterns
Rules
Line noise
The wrong way
Other (for the sake of completeness)

I pronounce them 'regex' with a soft g (as in "Lawliet is a prodigy"). I didn't include the letter pronunciation because it would take up too much room (~15 options) and I think I meant this to be communicating online, not in real life. Although, maybe another poll could be how you say them aloud ;D

And you didn't even know bears could type.

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Re^2: poll ideas quest 2009 by procura (Beadle) on Jan 08, 2009 at 13:18 UTC
Of course there should also be What is a regular expression? though it comes close to being between "line noise" and "Other"	[reply]
Re^3: poll ideas quest 2009 by cog (Parson) on Jan 08, 2009 at 14:32 UTC
Allow me to rephrase that... Regular expressions are: A sign that God exists What you need What makes Perl so strong Ergo, they think A sure way to get shot in the foot Line noise An abomination of nature	[reply]
Re^4: poll ideas quest 2009 by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 09, 2009 at 13:34 UTC
A tool that turns one problem into two problems ... to paraphrase an old regex joke.	[reply]
Re^5: poll ideas quest 2009 by jakobi (Pilgrim) on Oct 26, 2009 at 09:29 UTC
Re^4: poll ideas quest 2009 by ambrus (Abbot) on Jan 09, 2009 at 13:12 UTC
This needs an “all of the above” option.	[reply]
Re^2: poll ideas quest 2009 by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 08, 2009 at 13:20 UTC
I don't use `m/Reg\w+\b/` at all	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: poll ideas quest 2009 by cog (Parson) on Jan 08, 2009 at 14:28 UTC
No Regards, no Regainings, no Regimes, no Regions, no Registers, no Regressions, no Regrets, no Regrouping, no Regularities, no Regulations?	[reply]
Re^2: poll ideas quest 2009 by fernandes (Monk) on May 12, 2009 at 22:06 UTC
You could add "Klene's algebra".	[reply]
poll ideas quest 2009 by nagalenoj (Friar) on Jun 03, 2009 at 10:28 UTC
I prefer to sleep.. At night At early morning When doing code When boss is out of city When thinking about algorithm When solving maths I sleep 24 x 7 In exam hall After a good lunch While driving	[reply]


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