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Regex is good for small matches but once its starts to grow you probably should split it (if the language permits is) into parts that you name to make it easier to understand and if that is not possible, add a lengthy comment detailing what it does.
Listing every part with what it does makes it easier to spot that kind of errors but its still hard :/ -
@arcadesdude i always go to regex101 to create/mod my regex just to make sure my sanity is intact
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@Alkotronikk i used a double regex last week for highlighting search results. First to add \s* between each character but not beginning or end and second to find all instances of the patten in a term 😁 sounds super complicated but worked out very elegant
The only expressions devs have
He's got a valid point
How to break a chatbot (well done).
Fuck regex and everyone who has ever endorsed the use of and/or is affiliated with regex.
It's unreadable, impractical, overly complex and complicated and it adds unnecessary clutter to your code, and your thought process.
It's 00:50 am and I just spent 3 hours debugging a regex only to realise forgot a single "?" in a 75+ character long string and I want to go to bed.
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