Even though it has somewhat of a checkered reputation, being able to wield it will save you a ton of time. There's a saying that I've heard numerous times about regular expressions (regex). It goes ...

I'm slowly learning python and have hit a wall working with a regex.<BR><BR>The perl test regex script matches as expected, while the python version doesn't. I'm running perl 5.10.0 and python 2.5.2 ...