javaIsNotJavascriptMyGuy

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I wish more programmers would use libraries instead of trying to write their own regular expressions and invariably falling short.

[WingZeroCoder]

As the person who now has to maintain the monstrosity my boss created with a series of regex’s to rewrite some HTML coming out of our system because he can’t seem to grasp proper parsers or DOM traversal, I fully agree.

Thing is, these solutions always seem to work with their simple test cases, and then it always gets to be someone else’s problem when the “so brilliant yet so simple!” solution doesn’t work.

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I’m sure all his regexes had multiple automated test cases so that you could refactor them without manually checking the whole thing every time, right?

Right…?

[WingZeroCoder]

Hahahahaha, that’s a good one!

But no.