Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> Invisible wrote:
>>> 3. It really takes that much code just to do the same task as DIR /B C:\
>>>  C:\FileList.txt?
>> 
>> Says the guy who would rather write his own program to do specific
>> searches than figure out grep :)
> 
> Or rather, I'd rather write my own program than use grep for a *complex*
> search. (E.g., find anything that's a valid XML fragment.)
> 

Well, sure. Regular expressions are almost always the wrong tool for XML.

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