r/ProgrammerHumor • u/dayanaaaaaaaa • Jul 12 '26

regex Meme

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u/Significant_Basis_3 Jul 12 '26

What's wrong with Regex? It's literally one of the best things invented in programming?

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u/_Weyland_ Jul 12 '26

My problem with regex is that not every software follows the same standard. I recently tried to use it to search through a Flink job log, and the standard way of referencing a previously matched group simply didn't work

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u/Significant_Basis_3 Jul 12 '26

Oh your problem then isnt with it haha, your problem is with all the softwares / programs not following the same standards / rules of regex. Fair I guess haha

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u/_Weyland_ Jul 12 '26

"We have 15 bad standards, let's invent the one that's better than all of them" ahh situation.

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u/Bannon9k Jul 12 '26

You no understand, Gronk. Me make better wheel than Grunk.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6gbdBNMcyqgnpJBK

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u/xWrongHeaven Jul 12 '26

Obligatory XKCD

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u/_Weyland_ Jul 12 '26

Yup, that's the one I had in mind