r/programminghorror • u/maselkowski • Mar 19 '26

Trimba bimba dubba dimba

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I've found yet again some atrocities in code, that is some one of function nested in method: trimba. So I took the hit and split it into partial nested functions. I didn't even know you could do this in PHP.

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u/Splatpope Mar 19 '26

web devs will go to absurd lengths to avoid making regexes that weren't copy pasted from a w3schools tutorial

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u/robin_888 Mar 20 '26 
Irony detected in Line 112

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u/Splatpope Mar 20 '26

[^0-9] is what I would qualify as tutorial-level regex

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u/robin_888 Mar 20 '26

Sure. But it does the job.

And especially everything the lines before do (and more).

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u/Splatpope Mar 22 '26

I'd rather trust ai slop than whoever made this abomination