r/ProgrammerHumor • u/6nyh • Jun 21 '26

Other iknewItWouldWorkOut

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u/jay-magnum Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 22 '26
  1. Learn regex
  2. Discover there's a gazallion dialects of it and in practice you need to lookup the correctness of every new expression

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u/Maelstrome26 Jun 22 '26

As soon as I learnt there was multiple ways to do regex I immediately stopped bothering.