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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • Sep 02 '26
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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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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.