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blog! “Regular Expressions make me feel like a powerful wizard - and that's not a good thing”
(This is a rant because I'm exhausted after debugging something. If you've made RegEx your whole personality, I'm sorry.) The other day I had to fix a multi-line Regular Expression (RegEx). After a few hours of peering at…
Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/regular-expressions-make-me-feel-like-a-powerful-wizard-and-thats-not-a-good-thing/
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@Edent I agree that a dedicated, less-clunky solution should be used where possible, but the sheer ubiquity of RegEx is what makes it invaluable as far as I'm concerned. Means I can toss a string into vscode to check for specifics, or use the same in some 'find' type box in a browser even (in some cases). It's awful to write and read, but it's there :P