• MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk
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    3 months ago

    Regular expressions are not that difficult and coders that refuse to learn them because they “look like line noise” are terrible at their jobs.

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      3 months ago

      I can write a basic regex independently, but as soon as capture groups or positive/negative lookahead or lookbehind start popping up I’m back to the docs every time.

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      3 months ago

      Not a coder. But knowing basic regex, makes my life so much easier. Even in things like excel.

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      3 months ago

      Easy enough to write. But reading and maintaining? That’s the hard part.

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      3 months ago

      I’ve always thought that regular expressions are just specifications for state machines. They aren’t that difficult.