> I've also been looking at the regex section for the Python and other
> programming cheat sheets, and it occurs to me that there is a great
> deal of redundancy there. I use the PHP, mod_Rewrite and Regex cheat
> sheets, and will be using Python. So I'll have a complete cheat sheet
> for regex as well as three small regex syntax sections on the others.

> What are your thoughts on this? Do you use the small regex sections?
> Are they too small to be useful (on the language-specific cheat
> sheets)? Does it belong on some but not others - it's integral to
> mod_rewrite, for example, so would it make sense to keep it on that
> one?

> As regex has its own cheat sheet, would it make more sense just to add
> it to a "related cheat sheets" section on the description page? That
> way, people who wanted it could find and print it. It would free up
> some space on other cheat sheets for more useful information too ...

> Dave

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> Of course, for mod_rewrite, we don't have much info apart from regex and it
> makes sense to keep regex there. For other topics which are not so strongly
> related to regex, I think it would still be useful to give variations of
> regular expression syntax along with functions/structures to invoke them.
> For example, in PHP, we have Perl compatible and enhanced regex functions. I
> think those can be shown along with an overview of what are the differences
> (like ereg don't need slashes and so on...)

> Husain

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:19 PM, David Child <d...@addedbytes.com> wrote:

> > I've also been looking at the regex section for the Python and other
> > programming cheat sheets, and it occurs to me that there is a great
> > deal of redundancy there. I use the PHP, mod_Rewrite and Regex cheat
> > sheets, and will be using Python. So I'll have a complete cheat sheet
> > for regex as well as three small regex syntax sections on the others.

> > What are your thoughts on this? Do you use the small regex sections?
> > Are they too small to be useful (on the language-specific cheat
> > sheets)? Does it belong on some but not others - it's integral to
> > mod_rewrite, for example, so would it make sense to keep it on that
> > one?

> > As regex has its own cheat sheet, would it make more sense just to add
> > it to a "related cheat sheets" section on the description page? That
> > way, people who wanted it could find and print it. It would free up
> > some space on other cheat sheets for more useful information too ...

> > Dave

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