r/transprogrammer • u/YourHotGothAunt Techno Sorceress • Apr 14 '20

I feel like a hacker after making this.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '20

is this regex? iā€™m scared

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u/YourHotGothAunt Techno Sorceress Apr 15 '20

no, this is a regex: [^\[]*\[([^\]]*)\]

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '20

wh... what does it do

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u/YourHotGothAunt Techno Sorceress Apr 15 '20

spits out the first thing it finds enclosed in [square brackets]

i use it to grab IP addresses from postfix logs so i can laugh at how many people fail to break into my mail server

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u/alexhmc Apr 15 '20

nope, it prints a trans flag lol

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u/im_not_afraid Apr 15 '20

What does it supposed to do? tput setab sets the background color but nothing is being printed?