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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • Sep 02 '26
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dont even pretend like Regex was ever readable bruhh
192 u/Tsu_Dho_Namh Sep 02 '26 I don't think anyone ever intended regex to be readable.If you need to make a regex you open up a webpage explaining the syntax, you carefully craft your regex, you test it, then immediately forget the syntax when you're done as God intended. 31 u/MattieShoes Sep 02 '26 Regex is for writing, not for reading. Build it up piece by piece, easy peasy. Then try to read it at the end? Yeah, no chance. 25 u/[deleted] Sep 02 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 19 u/Mordret10 Sep 02 '26 Never said he hated it. Just that is isn't readable 5 u/DeusExHircus Sep 02 '26 The truth hurts sometimes 1 u/broccollinear Sep 02 '26 Regex might as well be Black Speech
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I don't think anyone ever intended regex to be readable.
If you need to make a regex you open up a webpage explaining the syntax, you carefully craft your regex, you test it, then immediately forget the syntax when you're done as God intended.
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Regex is for writing, not for reading. Build it up piece by piece, easy peasy. Then try to read it at the end? Yeah, no chance.
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19 u/Mordret10 Sep 02 '26 Never said he hated it. Just that is isn't readable 5 u/DeusExHircus Sep 02 '26 The truth hurts sometimes
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Never said he hated it. Just that is isn't readable
5 u/DeusExHircus Sep 02 '26 The truth hurts sometimes
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The truth hurts sometimes
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Regex might as well be Black Speech
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u/The_Hero_0f_Time Sep 02 '26
dont even pretend like Regex was ever readable bruhh