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cyberciti.biz • 9 days ago

The plural of regex is regrets 😂

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Legit - I had a bug in a script once and couldn’t figure it out.
My cat walked across my keyboard…
After I -’ed the changes, it started working as inspected. Still had no idea where the problem was though.

gammarae.design•8 days ago

s/(reg)(ex)/\L$1rets/gim

orbitalmayo.net•8 days ago

"A developer had a problem so they decided to solve it with regex. They then had two problems"

danhugo.bsky.social•8 days ago

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/05/so-this-happened/

danhugo.bsky.social•8 days ago

No attribution to jwz for that paraphrase?

orbitalmayo.net•8 days ago

Truth be told I've never known who it originally came from or even what the verbatim version is. Now I do :)

danhugo.bsky.social•8 days ago

Good.

Here´s another that comes up from time to time, as described by Martin Fowler (I worked with Phil and jwz at Netscape, I have no good quotes).

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

vishyswaz.bsky.social•8 days ago

I feel this meme lol

castle8080.bsky.social•8 days ago

I can't lie, I love them.

benmccune.bsky.social•8 days ago

codeyourassets.com•8 days ago

Haha, this one made a good laugh.

xandoid.bsky.social•8 days ago

Love them

verygay.fyi•8 days ago

Regex101 does legitimately help but yeah that probably works just as well

crackjiver.bsky.social•8 days ago

Probably the best use of AI code review/completion is to get it to write your regex for you.

I mean, no one else is going to question it.

copsewood.net•8 days ago

A few simpler regexes pipelined, perhaps combined with other filters, can often do the work of a single much larger and less readable one, which would take 5 times as long to write or debug.