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@ScriptCoded I agree with you there, within the last 3 months I’ve used it countless times, it’s wonderful when it’s set up, but a pain to work with to begin with
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@ScriptCoded Depends, if we're talking about 500 character regexes that should obviously be a separate function, they're a pain. If we're taking about reasonable use they can be lifesavers.
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s/NOT/a lot if you know what you are doing/
Try
E.F. Friedl, Jeffrey
Mastering Regular Expressions
ISBN-13 : 978-0596528126 -
@Godisalie "Regex is fun 😀 NOT!!!" Doesn't mention any specific cases. And if you have a 500 character regex then the issue isn't regex, but the developer and their implementation. It's like saying C# is not fun because 500 single line functions are hard to read.
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Regex is really useful. Sometimes it's fun.
If it's a long regex however, it shouldn't exist. -
Regex is a fantastic tool, and like any tool it can be abused. Don't blame the hammer because someone tried to use it to drive in some screws.
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