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Regular Expressions.

The art of combining brackets, slashes and dots until something happens.

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  • 9
    I had a problem and decided to solve it with regex... Now I have 2 problems
  • 3
    @SneakyTurtle Awww man that made me laugh way more than I should have 😃
  • 1
    It is almost black magic!
  • 1
    Usually you realize after days that you don't need the regex works in greedy mode or you forgot to enable the case sensitive flag.
  • 4
    the art of googling and trying random regex from stack overflow until it works
  • 1
    It would be nice to have only one regex format definition out there..
  • 2
    You can say the same about Perl in general :P
  • 3
    I would venture to say that when non devs imagine us coding, they imagine us writing regex all day long. Now I understand non devs a little bit better.

    Side note, did I hear someone on here call non devs muggles? Because that's amazing
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