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Basics of RegEx, in my opinion, is a very subjective thing. Personally, I'd interpret it as 'able to write a simple expression with a few minutes of googling',
by gedrap 10y ago
Basics of RegEx, in my opinion, is a very subjective thing.
Personally, I'd interpret it as 'able to write a simple expression with a few minutes of googling', where simple expression is something like 'up to 5 lower case letters immediately followed by a digit'. It'd would be a reasonable indicator if someone has used them outside tutorials and class rooms in the past year or two.
However, you (or anyone else) might have a very different interpretation.
- dcw303 10y agoI generally agree with your interpretation, but as the author wrote this later in the piece: > If I give you a challenge to take home, my expectations are even higher. If you get a week to code something with full access to Google, etc… There’s no excuse for giving me a solution that is anything less than top-notch. I saw that as an implication that he expected a candidate to be able to recall regex basics from memory.