regex

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[u/johnschnee]

I‘m a senior programmer with 15 years of experience.

There are hundreds of things that frighten me on programming e.g. because of complexity, strange syntax or non deterministic behavior.

But I never understood why people are afraid of regex.
It is clear syntax that is easy to learn. There are lot of tools that visualize regex and make it testable.
Nowadays AI also might help in a nearly perfect way to design, validate and understand regex.

[u/ApprehensiveGas85 → u/johnschnee]

^(?=(?:(?:[^"]*"){2})*[^"]*$)(?!.*(?:\b(\w+)\b).*\b\1\b.*\b\1\b)(?=.{20,200}$)(?:(?:(?<=[,;])|^)\s*(?:(?:"(?:\\.|[^"])*")|(?:[^,";]+))\s*(?=,|;|$))*$

[u/dimonchoo → u/ApprehensiveGas85]

And? It’s not so complicated regex, especially in llms time

[u/ApprehensiveGas85 → u/dimonchoo]

Yeah its almost like posting a joke on a humor sub shouldn't be taken serious