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Hot take: You're shit at coding if you can't do regex.
Ah yes, spoken like a true elitist asshole
It takes a couple of hours to learn the basics.
And then a few more any time you actually want to use it.
And then double it each time you have to decipher the existing one
Just don't use regex unless there is really no other way, and when you absolutely have to - frankly, that's one of the ultra rare occasions I recommend using the AI.
You recommend using AI to produce code you don't understand?
That I do, yes, because that's a small chunk of code that - when necessary - would have to be completely remade anyways, not just modified.
That wouldn't fly during a code review.
That's your opinion my man
I'm not gonna continue using arguments if all you can respond with is cynicism, apparently I wasn't wrong about the elitism part
Getting butthurt and personal over an offhand remark in a humour community is really toxic and you should probably work on that.
I trust that you can be better, my good buddy ❤
Regular expressions in general, and automata theory, sure you should know about that. But a specific extended regex language like here? That's like saying you're shit at coding if you can't do .
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.
Yeah, I've found myself wasting quite a lot of time thinking of the 'perfect regex' for task X only to realise that I could have avoided doing so by simply taking a different approach.