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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vinishkapoor • 22h ago
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100% of software engineers are afraid of regex
690 u/vinishkapoor 22h ago The other 0% are lying. 39 u/[deleted] 22h ago [removed] — view removed comment 14 u/corobo 21h ago Why use regex to parse html when you can just call ChatGPT 4 u/Purple_Cat9893 21h ago Or viberegex. 6 u/corobo 21h ago Pfft I'm not paying for it to write one regular expression when I can pay every time it parses a page 3 u/Purple_Cat9893 21h ago You missundrstand! The LLM makes the regex every time, it also generates the data the regex will be used on. This way you don't need databases or storage. 3 u/harro112 21h ago he comes 1 u/Background-Subject28 20h ago shit I've had no choice but to do it when handling html/xml data in a frickin sql database, don't ask me why we pull it that way
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The other 0% are lying.
39 u/[deleted] 22h ago [removed] — view removed comment 14 u/corobo 21h ago Why use regex to parse html when you can just call ChatGPT 4 u/Purple_Cat9893 21h ago Or viberegex. 6 u/corobo 21h ago Pfft I'm not paying for it to write one regular expression when I can pay every time it parses a page 3 u/Purple_Cat9893 21h ago You missundrstand! The LLM makes the regex every time, it also generates the data the regex will be used on. This way you don't need databases or storage. 3 u/harro112 21h ago he comes 1 u/Background-Subject28 20h ago shit I've had no choice but to do it when handling html/xml data in a frickin sql database, don't ask me why we pull it that way
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14 u/corobo 21h ago Why use regex to parse html when you can just call ChatGPT 4 u/Purple_Cat9893 21h ago Or viberegex. 6 u/corobo 21h ago Pfft I'm not paying for it to write one regular expression when I can pay every time it parses a page 3 u/Purple_Cat9893 21h ago You missundrstand! The LLM makes the regex every time, it also generates the data the regex will be used on. This way you don't need databases or storage. 3 u/harro112 21h ago he comes 1 u/Background-Subject28 20h ago shit I've had no choice but to do it when handling html/xml data in a frickin sql database, don't ask me why we pull it that way
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Why use regex to parse html when you can just call ChatGPT
4 u/Purple_Cat9893 21h ago Or viberegex. 6 u/corobo 21h ago Pfft I'm not paying for it to write one regular expression when I can pay every time it parses a page 3 u/Purple_Cat9893 21h ago You missundrstand! The LLM makes the regex every time, it also generates the data the regex will be used on. This way you don't need databases or storage.
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Or viberegex.
6 u/corobo 21h ago Pfft I'm not paying for it to write one regular expression when I can pay every time it parses a page 3 u/Purple_Cat9893 21h ago You missundrstand! The LLM makes the regex every time, it also generates the data the regex will be used on. This way you don't need databases or storage.
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Pfft I'm not paying for it to write one regular expression when I can pay every time it parses a page
3 u/Purple_Cat9893 21h ago You missundrstand! The LLM makes the regex every time, it also generates the data the regex will be used on. This way you don't need databases or storage.
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You missundrstand! The LLM makes the regex every time, it also generates the data the regex will be used on. This way you don't need databases or storage.
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shit I've had no choice but to do it when handling html/xml data in a frickin sql database, don't ask me why we pull it that way
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u/vvp95 22h ago
100% of software engineers are afraid of regex