Chanukah in Santa Monica
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I just received a rather amusing MP3 in my email today:
(I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica (1.7 MB)
Turns out it's a Tom Lehrer song from 1990. Check out the lyrics. The Yom Kippah rhyme is a bit of a stretch, but I guess that's what they call poetic license. :-)
Related: check out today's Ask Yahoo! column: Why is the holiday Hanukkah spelled two different ways?
Only two different ways?
Here's my Hanukkah regex (oh, man, there goes another phrase I thought I'd never utter/type):
/^(Ch|H)hann?ukk?ah?$/
Posted by David at December 19, 2003 06:28 AMHey, no need to remember the match -- you can toss in another question mark!
/^(?:Ch|H)ann?ukk?ah?$/
or for those in need:
$gift =~ s/\bC?[hH]ann?ukk?ah?\b/$$$/;
# that makes for a really Greedy regex!
Oops, forgot the backslashes:
$gift =~ s/\bC?[hH]ann?ukk?ah?\b/\$\$\$/
Posted by Glenn at December 24, 2003 12:31 PM