While regular expressions are perhaps one of the more difficult programming concepts to learn, they do have one advantage. Regular expressions work in basically the same way in all the different languages that support them and so once you have learnt regular expressions in one language you can easily use them in another.
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I have been programming computers since the late 1970s, performing a wide variety of different computer programming jobs, and using a large range of different languages - mostly writing accounting and financial systems for mainframe computers. Since the market for mainframe computer skills moved offshore I have been writing about computers, teaching computer courses in the classroom, and also doing accounting work.
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