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Let's remind the famous quote from Jamie Zawinski: "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have tw

• drivingmenuts 11y ago
  I never really learned how to write regex. I can write simple ones with the use of a tool to help me figure out what I need to write (and a cheatsheet to explain the terms). I realize they could save me some future potential grief, but I'm usually more concerned with the present actual grief they cause me. I feel like I'm letting down the side.
  • cyphar 11y ago
    If you start writing a lot of Unix pipelines or use Vim extensively you start to get a very strong working knowledge of regular expressions (awk can solve basically any problem, but it creates at least twice as many as it solves :P).
• pbreit 11y ago
  So many routing solutions use regexes. Is that really necessary?