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I just wish I could use regular expressions to search Lexis or WestLaw!
We had a LoisLaw rep in last week and I told him that he could further distinguish the LoisLaw service by allowing searching via regular expressions. His eyes glazed over and he said that he’d look into it. Sigh.
The latest edition of my Learning Perl book has a greatly expanded tutorial on regular expressions. Check it out!