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Molly Struve 🦄
@molly_struve
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Apr 16, 2020
I love regexes! said no one ever
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Peter Baylies
@pbaylies
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Apr 16, 2020
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/I (:?love|hate) regex(?:es)?/
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JSON Baumgartner
@jasonbaumgartne
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Apr 16, 2020
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What is this black magic?
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Peter Baylies
@pbaylies
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Apr 16, 2020
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So this happened.
What is meant by "Now you have two problems"? There is a popular quote by Jamie Zawinski: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two...
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JSON Baumgartner
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Oldie but goodie: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags…
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Peter Baylies
@pbaylies
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Apr 16, 2020
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One of my favorites! Of course, I did write a tag parser using regexes once, long ago, but it used a few different ones, and recursion besides... Cool idea, frightful old code.
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JSON Baumgartner
@jasonbaumgartne
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Apr 16, 2020
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for .... for .... for .... for ..... YES!
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