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comment by ignorantcollective
ignorantcollective  ·  3410 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Regex101 - Explore and Explain Regular Expressions

There's an old saying that goes something like, "I was looking at a data extraction problem and realised I could solve it with regular expressions. Now I had two problems."





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I've heard this oft-quoted as an excuse to not learn regex. The vast majority of regex I write are oneliner throwaways, so the "problem" of maintainability is nonexistent. Judicious use of regex is a huge productivity boost.

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