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what debugging regex feels like (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

That \\. part doesn't look right, but what do I know. Apparently control codes are valid elsewhere, so a literal backslash followed by any character, even a space or a newline, might actually be valid there.

"Yeah, my e-mail address is abc, carriage return, three backspaces and a terminal bell at example dot com. ... What do you mean your mail program doesn't support it?"