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TryParse and the Exception Tax

In .NET 1.1, TryParse is only available for the Double datatype [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemDoubleClassTryParseTopic.asp] . Version 2.0 of the framework extends TryParse to all the basic datatypes [http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=1239]. Why do we care? Performance. Parse

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Parsing: Beyond Regex

I’ve blogged ad nauseam about how much I love Regular Expressions, but even the mighty regular expression has limits. As noted in Daniel Cazzulini’s blog: A full-blown programming language cannot be parsed with regular expressions. But given the limited number of programming languages (successful ones, let’s say)