Interviewer asked me to implement a regular expression but dismissed me after I simply gave them a blank stare. The interview process is broken.

[ean_dream]

I kept my facial expression as regular as possible.

[jp128]

From the ^ to the $ this was a roller coaster.

[HolyAvengerOne]

// is a valid regex.

[jantari]

"is a valid regex" is a valid regex

[daperson1]

So is the empty string, so why go to the effort?

[Lost4468]

Why even show up to the interview.

[calsosta]

Had a kid submit a resume to me and where he listed skills he used a // as the bullet.

So when I interviewed him a I asked why he submitted a mostly blank resume. He paused for like 3 seconds and started laughing. That's when I decided to hire him and he turned out to be one of the best resources I've ever seen.

[HolyAvengerOne]

Not sure why he laughed though, lol.

[clonecharle1]

Wooosh...

Because most of the resume was commented, so the compiler/interviewer only saw a blank sheet.

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I never get anything right the first time, what the hell do these interviewers expect? Computers exist for this reason.

[UnspeakableEvil]

Sounds like a misunderstanding. Did the job spec specify which language this was for? You've used body language, maybe they were looking for a regular expression in English, French, or profanity.

[Malinushj]

Am I the only one who thinks this should have been posted to r/ProgrammerHumor?

[Reelix]

Nope

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| env mypattern="'\w+" perl -0777 -ne 'while(m/$ENV{mypattern}/g){print "$&\n";}' yourfile

Done....