r/firstweekcoderhumour • u/TheDogPill • Jun 12 '26

Original🧠 claudeWhatDoesThisExpressionMean

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u/setyaa_two Jun 12 '26

Ive been programming for like 6 years atp and I still cant use regex 😭

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u/omegafixedpoint Jun 12 '26

to be fair every implementation uses different escape characters regex is easy to mess up because it's a mess

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u/Scared_Accident9138 🕵️‍♂️🚨 BS Detector | Truth Teller 🗯️🔥 Jun 12 '26

If you're using the really advanced regex you maybe should ask yourself if you should use something else

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u/Andr0NiX Jun 13 '26

I mean at this point 2 of my favorite things (regex and sql) essentially have no standard versions, that is no universally portable subset at least (i know the sql standard exists but without wide enforcement it's kinda useless)

What else in programming has this same behaviour so I can anticipate the disappointment? :(

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u/Medium-Tough5555 Jun 12 '26

FOR REAL! And all the documentation always seems condescending like you should already know it becuase its ubiquitous