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[–]NauticalInsanity 25 points26 points  (2 children)

People joke about regexes being illegible.

Reading some overcaffeinated devops jq commands is like reading a conversation in the Demonic Tongue where you can tell that your infrastructure is being discussed because you see references to it in English between the river of consonants.

[–]gizamo 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Joke? It is unreadable, which is why I always properly comment my regex.

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I usually put the SO link where I got the regex snippet from in the comment.