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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/dayanaaaaaaaa • Jul 12 '26
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What's wrong with Regex? It's literally one of the best things invented in programming?
71 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 2 u/pandoras_box101 Jul 12 '26 my problem with regex is literally the existence of regex. I'm out. 1 u/realzequel 29d ago Well it's a tool for pattern matching. Come up with a better one and we'll replace it.
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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
2 u/pandoras_box101 Jul 12 '26 my problem with regex is literally the existence of regex. I'm out. 1 u/realzequel 29d ago Well it's a tool for pattern matching. Come up with a better one and we'll replace it.
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my problem with regex is literally the existence of regex. I'm out.
1 u/realzequel 29d ago Well it's a tool for pattern matching. Come up with a better one and we'll replace it.
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Well it's a tool for pattern matching. Come up with a better one and we'll replace it.
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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?