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eo287540014y@bagfox I disagree. Sometimes regular expressions are too much abstraction if your use cases are small. There's been a couple of times where I took almost an hour trying to figure out a regex before I realized I just needed a very limited number of possibilities.
But you should definitely learn regex. -
bagfox8724y@eo2875 If you need too long time to understand it, or the regex is too long, it’s a bad regex.
Regex‘s do not exist to put many replacement actions into one. E.g. every email regex is a bad email regex. -
hjk10157314yRegex is just a tool. A handy one but not strictly necessity. Most C programmers don't use it. (Tailored logic is faster and more compact, that usually matters when you need the controle C provides)
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@devrant Need an oiption where I spends all my ++ to vote all for ONE post, once a year maybe. Thios one is it for me.
20 years in dev. NEVER used regEx.
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