amarok, 11 months ago

@nixCraft
Our cats do know!
#regex #geekhumor 😃

xenos, 11 months ago

@nixCraft I've been loving https://regex.ai/

skyzyx, 11 months ago

@nixCraft @lisamelton: Which regex? ;)

DavidNielsen, 11 months ago

@nixCraft @lisamelton

ned flanders witchcraft GIF

nyx, 11 months ago

@nixCraft
🙂 https://regex101.com/
My go-to place for questions like "What the heck did I fuck up now with my pattern?"

janeadams, 11 months ago

@nixCraft Behold, the regex my colleague wrote when we built the Twitter ngram viewer

https://storywrangling.org/about

admin, 11 months ago

@nixCraft :cybersec:

poswald, 11 months ago

@nixCraft @lisamelton you know who does though? ChatGPT… it’s weird.

skry, 11 months ago

@nixCraft Thank you.

abivia, 11 months ago

@nixCraft Since writing [make that being forced to write] my own compact, limited regex parser in C (still with back-pattern matching) many, many moons ago, A surprising amount of my subsequent income has been derived from writing regexes.

MerePotatoHead, 11 months ago

@nixCraft regex for the lazy. All my homies write hand made parsers. I wouldn't trust a magic language to verify that example@proton.me is an email.

sickmatter, 11 months ago

@MerePotatoHead

@nixCraft

Considering the support for nested parenthetical comments in an email address, a pushdown finite automaton is a minimal requirement for proper email address validation. Email addresses are overly fucking complicated as it is.

redmagus_clawmus, 11 months ago

@nixCraft anyone that claims they do are probably doing it "wrong" in the same way people use C++ standards (this is a joke in case anyone thinks I am being overly serious)

unhook2048, 11 months ago

@nixCraft y(?:(?:(?:(?:ee+)y|y(?:ee+y|y(?:e+|i+)s?)|ye+sy))|e(?:s?e+e*|e(?:ys|e+y)))?s

idlewise, 11 months ago

@nixCraft

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems." - JWZ

meadowhawk, 11 months ago

@nixCraft I've known regex at least a dozen times over the past decade..

jhaluska, 11 months ago

@nixCraft Regex is like salt. A tiny bit is nice, but man it can spoil a dish fast.

Teepee, 11 months ago

@nixCraft Always get the regexp to work by pure chance 🙈🙈🙈

patmikemid, 11 months ago

@nixCraft I feel seen. I wonder if this is a good use case for chat gpt. Next time I need regex, I’ll give it a go.

dotoscat, 11 months ago

@nixCraft (nope|yes)

bertrand_rustle, 11 months ago

@nixCraft

This vaguery is maddening. regextensions? regexposition? regexopotamus?

maxheadroom, 11 months ago

@nixCraft Chomsky does ;)

ghorwood, 11 months ago

@nixCraft the .* at the end is the real joke here.