NateNate60@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · edit-26 days agoOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up15arrow-down1imageOh boy what a beautiful regex. I'm sure it does something logical and easy to understand.lemmy.worldNateNate60@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · edit-26 days agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$ <answer> Matches strings of any character repeated a non-prime number of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vbk0TwkokM
minus-squareMummifiedClient5000@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days agoHot take: You’re shit at coding if you can’t do regex.
minus-squareyrmp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 days agoRegex should generally be avoided wherever possible.
minus-squareNateNate60@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoYeah but it’s just so tempting… It validates so many inputs so easily…
minus-squareyrmp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoAnd misses others you didn’t think about.
Hot take: You’re shit at coding if you can’t do regex.
Regex should generally be avoided wherever possible.
Yeah but it’s just so tempting… It validates so many inputs so easily…
And misses others you didn’t think about.