Regular Expressions.

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

I had a problem and decided to solve it with regex... Now I have 2 problems

@SneakyTurtle Awww man that made me laugh way more than I should have 😃

It is almost black magic!

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.

the art of googling and trying random regex from stack overflow until it works

It would be nice to have only one regex format definition out there..

You can say the same about Perl in general :P

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