Post B1I8cndaR6SQimPR9k by ericsedge@bitbang.social
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(DIR) Post #B1I6iugiw35SPwfEno by foone@digipres.club
2025-12-16T01:44:48Z
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writing for more general audiences than a mastodon full of tech nerds has me going:wait, what do you mean you can't expect all your readers to understand regular expressions? not even basic ones?is it not immediately obvious what /fo+n+e+/ matches?maybe I spend too much time hanging around solely programmers
(DIR) Post #B1I6ltxo5Lfx2V4zc8 by foone@digipres.club
2025-12-16T01:45:22Z
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of course everyone knows, regular expressions, a thing FAMOUSLY WELL UNDERSTOOD among programmers
(DIR) Post #B1I7sfSMWM7K1lA5aq by foone@digipres.club
2025-12-16T01:57:44Z
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@cinebox makes sense, yeah, I get the logic.
(DIR) Post #B1I8cndaR6SQimPR9k by ericsedge@bitbang.social
2025-12-16T02:06:04Z
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@foone the pinnacle of write once read never in my experience. And I actually do use them.
(DIR) Post #B1ICGoPFIUGWYETLnM by sabik@rants.au
2025-12-16T02:46:53Z
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@foone The + means advanced articulation
(DIR) Post #B1IK6JZzr1LvgK0T7Q by Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al
2025-12-16T04:13:36Z
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@foone I remember a moment when some engineers were trying to argue that a certain feat of string manipulation couldn't be done. When I asked whether they'd considered using a simple regex to solve the problem, as god is my witness, they thought I was speaking in tongues. I ended up writing the damn thing myself.Point is, regular expressions are apparently considered witchcraft even among the programming élite.
(DIR) Post #B1IK6L4sHhe8KNSdt2 by foone@digipres.club
2025-12-16T04:14:38Z
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@Legit_Spaghetti madness