John Summerfied wrote:
Against Java in particular and Python is that I'm using Regular
Expressions, and unless REs have surfaced in Java since I learned it,
that's an after-market addon
Java has had REs since version 1.4 (not an add-on)
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/extra/regex/
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