@NateNate60 to Programmer [email protected] • edit-26 hours agoOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.imagemessage-square25arrow-up188arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up186arrow-down1imageOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.@NateNate60 to Programmer [email protected] • edit-26 hours agomessage-square25file-text
^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$ <answer> Matches strings of any character repeated a non-prime number of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbk0TwkokM
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-11•3 hours agoHot take: You’re shit at coding if you can’t do regex.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•edit-22 hours agoAh yes, spoken like a true elitist asshole
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•51 minutes agoIt takes a couple of hours to learn the basics.
minus-square@NateNate60OPlink7•2 hours agoYeah but it’s just so tempting… It validates so many inputs so easily…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•51 minutes agoYeah, I’ve found myself wasting quite a lot of time thinking of the ‘perfect regex’ for task X only to realise that I could have avoided doing so by simply taking a different approach.
Hot take: You’re shit at coding if you can’t do regex.
Ah yes, spoken like a true elitist asshole
It takes a couple of hours to learn the basics.
Regex should generally be avoided wherever possible.
Yeah but it’s just so tempting… It validates so many inputs so easily…
And misses others you didn’t think about.
Yeah, I’ve found myself wasting quite a lot of time thinking of the ‘perfect regex’ for task X only to realise that I could have avoided doing so by simply taking a different approach.