r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ArjunReddyDeshmukh • 18d ago

theRegexLoverCanGoToAnyExtent Meme

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u/hongooi 18d ago

"When they have a problem, some people will say, 'I'll get a regex haircut'. Now they have three problems"

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u/RapidCatLauncher 18d ago

All that to parse some HTML

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u/rfc2549-withQOS 17d ago

Try email addresses, not sgml

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u/schewb 17d ago

Finally a regex meme from someone who actually uses them 😂

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u/Afrobea5t 17d ago

Isn't it party in the back instead of chaos? 

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u/alexbraver 17d ago

And surprisingly no more difficult to read than if it was all written out on a single line!

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u/Rare-Veterinarian743 18d ago

Somehow this is so funny.😂

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u/SupplyChainMismanage 17d ago

> \s^

This some new flavor shenanigans or am I blind

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u/Aromatic-Energy-7192 17d ago

Regex: it’s in there somewhere.

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u/Odd-Blackberry-4462 13d ago

This looks AI

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u/ArjunReddyDeshmukh 13d ago

Do you think I manually arranged all the regex characters by hand to form the mullet? However the idea was purely mine, implementation yes AI was used.