Regex is fun 😃 NOT!!! 🤯😭

It is if you know it. One of the most useful tools of all time.

@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

I've been obssesively playing Regex Crossword and it's so much fun

@err-occured Disagree :)

@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.

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.

I just started a regex project.

Regex is really useful. Sometimes it's fun.
If it's a long regex however, it shouldn't exist.

It's great fun. Quick and dirty in many cases, but good fun.

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.