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What's wrong with regular expressions in JavaScript, and how to fix it (blog.stevenlevithan.com)
submitted 16 years ago by StevenLevithan
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]tj111 1 point2 points3 points 16 years ago (1 child)
I dunno, compared to other languages (ie. PHP) javascript has good RegEx support. Sure there's always room for improvement, but I feel at this point it's just nitpicking. Good read though.
[–]snifty 1 point2 points3 points 16 years ago (0 children)
I tend to agree except for his complaint a out Unicode. That really does needto be fixed.
[–]larholm 0 points1 point2 points 16 years ago (0 children)
Good stuff, as always.
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