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Wait, forgot to escape a space. Wheeeeee[taptaptap]eeeeee!

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[in a yellow box:]
Whenever I learn a new skill I concoct elaborate fantasy scenarios where it lets me save the day.

Megan: Oh no! The killer must have followed her on vacation!
[Megan points to computer.]
Megan: But to find them we’d have to search through 200 MB of emails looking for something formatted like an address!
Cueball: It’s hopeless!

Off-panel voice: Everybody stand back.

Off-panel voice: I know regular expressions.

[A man swings in on a rope, toward the computer.]

tap tap
The word PERL! appears in a bubble.

[The man swings away, and the other characters cheer.]

  • @[email protected]
    10•10 months ago

    Looks like we found the intern who coded the check that rejects “[email protected]”.

    Follow up by tech support successfully emailing me at that address to tell me to use a different email address.

    • @uid0gid0
      4•10 months ago

      Now do the one where spaces are allowed in the local part as well