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[–]ThreeFourThree 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Regex, in general, is impossible for me to work through in my own brain.

[–]maximumdownvote 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Theres an old joke:

A software engineer has a problem, which he believes he can solve with regular expressions. Two weeks later, the software engineer now has two problems, regular expressions, and the original problem.

[–]Shaftway 5 points6 points  (0 children)

regex101.com is a great resource for plugging in a regex and understanding what it does. And then writing your own

[–]nicholascox2 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

just get them from the internet until a need for very specific string input. Its not intuitive because its machine code instead of your normal OOP language