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Asking the real questions (jlai.lu)

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[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

no one is "good" with regex.

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[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Then who's coming up with all the bits that I copy/paste off the internet? The regex dragon?

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[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

From what I've seen, it's Cthulhu.

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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

There was only one, we're all still copying from him or her.

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[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

they likely aren't good regex's ;P ... anything with more than, say, 6 operators is probably missing an edge case or will be outdated in a year (and then it's impossible to determine its original intention)

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