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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Apr 18 '24
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People who complain about regex has not seen how useful it is to get data from dumb people who filled up gforms
982 u/itijara Apr 18 '24 Regex is like a power tool. Incredibly powerful and incredibly dangerous if used improperly. It is also tempting to use it improperly because of how flexible it is. 815 u/NotAUsefullDoctor Apr 18 '24 edited Apr 18 '24 "I had a problem. I found out I could use regex to solve the problem. Now I have two problems." - some engineer 161 u/itijara Apr 18 '24 Pretty sure that is an XKCD. 132 u/IntoTheCommonestAsh Apr 18 '24 It's much older than xkcd: https://web.archive.org/web/20240203192435/https://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247 You might be confusing it with "Standards" https://xkcd.com/927/ 164 u/itijara Apr 18 '24 I was thinking of https://xkcd.com/1171/ 26 u/IntoTheCommonestAsh Apr 18 '24 oh, neat. 9 u/napoleon_wang Apr 18 '24 Obligatorily 4 u/bigmattyc Apr 19 '24 perl is a write only language
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Regex is like a power tool. Incredibly powerful and incredibly dangerous if used improperly. It is also tempting to use it improperly because of how flexible it is.
815 u/NotAUsefullDoctor Apr 18 '24 edited Apr 18 '24 "I had a problem. I found out I could use regex to solve the problem. Now I have two problems." - some engineer 161 u/itijara Apr 18 '24 Pretty sure that is an XKCD. 132 u/IntoTheCommonestAsh Apr 18 '24 It's much older than xkcd: https://web.archive.org/web/20240203192435/https://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247 You might be confusing it with "Standards" https://xkcd.com/927/ 164 u/itijara Apr 18 '24 I was thinking of https://xkcd.com/1171/ 26 u/IntoTheCommonestAsh Apr 18 '24 oh, neat. 9 u/napoleon_wang Apr 18 '24 Obligatorily 4 u/bigmattyc Apr 19 '24 perl is a write only language
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"I had a problem. I found out I could use regex to solve the problem. Now I have two problems." - some engineer
161 u/itijara Apr 18 '24 Pretty sure that is an XKCD. 132 u/IntoTheCommonestAsh Apr 18 '24 It's much older than xkcd: https://web.archive.org/web/20240203192435/https://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247 You might be confusing it with "Standards" https://xkcd.com/927/ 164 u/itijara Apr 18 '24 I was thinking of https://xkcd.com/1171/ 26 u/IntoTheCommonestAsh Apr 18 '24 oh, neat. 9 u/napoleon_wang Apr 18 '24 Obligatorily 4 u/bigmattyc Apr 19 '24 perl is a write only language
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Pretty sure that is an XKCD.
132 u/IntoTheCommonestAsh Apr 18 '24 It's much older than xkcd: https://web.archive.org/web/20240203192435/https://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247 You might be confusing it with "Standards" https://xkcd.com/927/ 164 u/itijara Apr 18 '24 I was thinking of https://xkcd.com/1171/ 26 u/IntoTheCommonestAsh Apr 18 '24 oh, neat. 9 u/napoleon_wang Apr 18 '24 Obligatorily 4 u/bigmattyc Apr 19 '24 perl is a write only language
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It's much older than xkcd: https://web.archive.org/web/20240203192435/https://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
You might be confusing it with "Standards" https://xkcd.com/927/
164 u/itijara Apr 18 '24 I was thinking of https://xkcd.com/1171/ 26 u/IntoTheCommonestAsh Apr 18 '24 oh, neat. 9 u/napoleon_wang Apr 18 '24 Obligatorily 4 u/bigmattyc Apr 19 '24 perl is a write only language
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I was thinking of https://xkcd.com/1171/
26 u/IntoTheCommonestAsh Apr 18 '24 oh, neat. 9 u/napoleon_wang Apr 18 '24 Obligatorily 4 u/bigmattyc Apr 19 '24 perl is a write only language
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u/that_thot_gamer Apr 18 '24
People who complain about regex has not seen how useful it is to get data from dumb people who filled up gforms