Regex versus Messenger
Pasting a regular expression into MSN Messenger can have unexpected though amusing results:  [Regex courtesy of regexlib.com]
'William Luu' on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:18:30 GMT, sez: Yeah, that's a bit of an annoyance... That's when you need to turn off the emoticons...
It's not just regex, it's all the code that you paste into msn, it likes to turn those things into lots and lots of smilies (depending on your programming language of choice... of course!)
'blameMike' on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 23:58:00 GMT, sez: FYI the regexlib.com link is broken.
Just lookin' out.
'sg' on Sun, 22 Aug 2004 22:05:43 GMT, sez: cheers Mike -- fixed now.
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