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Regex flavors (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Regex feels distinctly eldritch to me. Like, a lot of computing knowledge feels like magic, but regex feels like the kind of magic you get by consorting with dark forces

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago (2 children)

regex feels like the kind of magic you get by consorting with dark forces

AKA reading the manual.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Im a good christian boy thats why I refuse to read the manual

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Or studying computer science and learning about finite state machines