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cm0002@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 5 months ago

what debugging regex feels like

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cm0002@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 5 months ago
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    It helps if you break it apart into its component parts. Which is like anything else, really, but we’ve all accepted that regexes are supposed to run together in an unreadable mess. No reason it has to be that way.

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      At my company we store our regex in the database with linebreaks in it, but when it’s actually called to be used those line breaks are stripped out. That way regex that looks for X can all be all on one line and actually readable.

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        wait… why do you have so many regexes you need to put them in a database???

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          My job is regex.

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            Ummmmmmmm

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