Dirk comments on Finding a years old project be like

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 73 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Finding my own old projects: "What the hell did this guy do and why does it work?"

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[–] nicman24@kbin.social 40 points 3 years ago (4 children)

that is me with regex that I wrote from scratch like 5 mins ago

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

“Finally! It works! I’ll never touch it again! I’ll just move it in a variable and–… WHYYYY???!?!11!”

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 3 years ago

Its always the backslash before the forward slash. Every. Time.

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[–] d_k_bo@feddit.de 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

That's why I like to include a comment with a link to an example on regex101.com.

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 3 years ago

This is so smart. I'm stealing this.

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[–] Bipta@kbin.social 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Commenting regex fucking sucks. There's really no good approach.

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[–] regular_human@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

// MAGIC?

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[–] nicman24@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago

https://github.com/nicman23/Automation-for-Molecular-Docking/blob/dc73355383fc3c9cb61df1f1ad4d2b1ba1a7001f/molport-downloader.sh#L13

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[–] tool@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago

Every regex that I write ends up looking like line noise or the holy tome to summon Chtulu.

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