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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 61 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

No, cause "John\nDoe" messes up my regex. Sorry, out of the question. I'm not good with regex.

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 25 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Then who's coming up with all the bits that I copy/paste off the internet? The regex dragon?

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

they likely aren't good regex's ;P ... anything with more than, say, 6 operators is probably missing an edge case or will be outdated in a year (and then it's impossible to determine its original intention)

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

From what I've seen, it's Cthulhu.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

There was only one, we're all still copying from him or her.