if you've been coding for over 20 years and in that time you've mastered string manipulation to where you always get it right on the first try you're a fucking liar
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Replying to @chaosprime
What environment? If you've got a decent standard library it's not nearly so awful.
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Replying to @ded_ruckus
C# + Unity, but it doesn't really matter, sometimes you wind up addressing character indexes, that's just life
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Replying to @chaosprime @ded_ruckus
ideally the whole point of a standard library is to collect things almost everyone will have to do sooner or later and almost nobody will do exactly right, and do them right for you so you don't have to so ofc a standard library is itself a hard thing nobody gets exactly right
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The only string thing I ever get right the first time is to use the library's buffer object instead of the + operator. The regular expressions usually look pretty good by the 20th try.
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idk, if there is some rule whereby there are ppl who are somehow just hardwired to be annoyingly fluent with sth eyeryone else hates and finds hard then apparently that's me & pointer arithmetic, so I actually actively dislike having it abstracted out of my hands for string stuff
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @logfromblammo and
hopeless with regex tho. can more or less understand what's going on programmatically but still can't write one to save my life, mainly bc I can't *read* them. even the one I just wrote just looks like impenetrable undebuggable line noise
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"now you have two problems"
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"i know", thought Jay-Z, "i'll use regular expressions". now he has 100 problems
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Stalin had a sysadmin who used perl to solve a problem. so Stalin had a problem. no sysadmin, no problem!
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