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> Honestly, as a noob, this is one of the biggest reasons I have such a hard time deciding to learn regex. Clear your afternoon, and just learn it. Seriously,
by new_guy 7y ago
> Honestly, as a noob, this is one of the biggest reasons I have such a hard time deciding to learn regex.
Clear your afternoon, and just learn it. Seriously, it takes a couple of hours at best and then - BOOM - you're done for the rest of your life.
- absorber 7y ago> you're done for the rest of your life. If that were so easy then I don't think much of these cheatsheets would exist.
- quickthrower2 7y agoThe basic regex is easy, infact an English word is a regex! A dot matches a single character. Star multiple of the previous character. Just that is useful for a lot of cases!
- freehunter 7y agoThe cheat sheets exist because people aren’t learning regex. You don’t need to learn every flavor of regex, just the one or small number you need to know. And once you know the basics, the differences are very minor.
- olskool 7y agoIf you believe it is possible to become an expert in regular expressions as they exist in modern computer languages in "a couple of hours at best" you are delusional.
- doliveira 7y agoHe didn't say you could become an expert in a single afternoon.