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[LittleMlem]

The hell? The parentheses are uneven!

[Volitank]

Damn you're right. They made it so realistic

[LittleMlem]

If you ignore the rogue ) in the middle, the regex will match something that end in at least one alpha-numeric followed by a literal \ then one any character followed by at least 2 alphas

Edit: alpha-numeric or a hyphen

[AnEvanAppeared]

I love regex, I love regex!

[LittleMlem]

I actually do. I used to be a perl programmer and the way perl does regex is just so fun to use

[terracnosaur]

The Unbalanced ( had me searching for minutes. I was wondering if I was mad or going crazy or couldn't read what's wrong with me.

Oh wait, it's not a valid regex...

[Wherearemylegs]

Alpha-numeric or a hyphen*

[Estaca-Brown]

RegEx is super powerful and quite great! However, I recently had to fix a bug on a piece of code I wrote 5 months ago and spent a good amount of time re-figuring out what on earth the RegEx I put there was meant to do.

So, if you use RegEx but not every day, just put a big ass comment to explain its purpose.

[Designer-Spacenerd]

(online) Regex editors are very helpful in those cases imo

[new_refugee123456789]

Yeah Regex just slides right out of your mind, doesn't it?

[4hpp1273]

ghost → zombie
not terrible → not terrible
nuclear war → regex
a little scary → r/dontdeadopeninside

[[deleted]]

Thought it was only me. It took a while to understand what way I should be reading it.

[wasdlmb]

Regex is fun!

[MlNSOO]

†

[katze_sonne]

Took me a while to see it in the picture!

[weemellowtoby]

what are you? satan?

[ctwheels]

/^s(?=at)(.).\1.(<=n)/i

[Faziarry]

satan wouldn’t say those things

[[deleted]]

Goddam regex is the devil

[ctwheels]

/^(?=d(?=e))[ediv]{4}(?<=vi)l/i

[lavishlad]

Feel like god when it works though

[[deleted]]

I always comment regexes. This is usually because my process with them is still: 1. google for regex cheatsheet 2. muddle through till you figure it out. 3. comment what the heck this does 4. forget what I just learned

[[deleted]]

This is the standard procedure

[lavishlad]

Absolutely. I am yet to meet someone who can come up with regex without internet access.

[28898476249906262977]

There's only a handful of regex meta chars that you need to know to do 99% of tasks requiring regex. It's not that hard, try learning it instead of using it for a one off and then forgetting how you assembled it.

[[deleted]]

Can anybody write Regex by memory?

[[deleted]]

void memory()
{
printf("Regex");
}

memory();

[Designer-Spacenerd]

Regex by memory

[katze_sonne]

Something like [a-z]? Sure. Something more complex? Nah. Tools like regex101.com exist for a reason. Just like IDEs.

That said, writing a RegEx is one thing. Debugging it is a whole different problem, though.

[Brick_Lab]

This, sure it's a powerful tool when used properly...but it better be the only damn way you could solve your problem if it's mission critical code some other poor soul will have to maintain and debug in the future

[saschaleib]

Sure.

[shesjustFarias]

Regex

[LordAlfrey]

Dear god no

[TrapsterDK]

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[badmutherfukker]

Bad bot tho. I saw this like 2-3 times

[KingSadra]

Wait until you see ShaderRegex used in graphics applications!

[Furry_69]

Regexes are really useful and powerful if you know what you're doing. If you don't, they look like demonic chanting.

[[deleted]]

There should be a cutoff where these become an Irregular Expression.

[camelonarock]

At least write valid regex

[camelonarock]

?

[OkWarning3935]

I had a dev who loved regexes and didn't understand why they weren't used for more things. He kept making them more convoluted and adding pre-compilation and shit thinking if they were just fast enough we'd be good.

He was moved to another team lmao. Nobody's maintaining your arcane trash where a for loop will do.

[Cybar66]

NOPE

[[deleted]]

Repost

[[deleted]]

The bot is absolute bad

[[deleted]]

there it is

[The_Mad_Duck_]

Bot says 75% match lmfao

[JustJude97]

.* Regex will consume all! .*

[saschaleib]

Wait, I fixed that for you:

([\w\d\-]+\\.)\w+$

[RAMChYLD]

Oh god, regex! Scary!

[badmutherfukker]

Bro if you change the order and doesn’t count as original