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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (6 children)

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/perl_problems.png

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Made that joke in an interview once.

They didn't think it was funny. They truly thought Regex was the solution to, but never the cause of, all problems.

They wanted to make a Regex to verify every single address in the world. Dodged a bullet

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Holy hell yeah you did. How would you go about doing that in a single expression? A bunch of back references to figure out the country? What if that's not included? Oy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

/.+(road|street).+/ resigns

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