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The argument isn’t that they’re easy to use, it’s that they’re widely used and widely available in virtually all languages. You’ll encounter them. The time it
by ed25519FUUU 6y ago
The argument isn’t that they’re easy to use, it’s that they’re widely used and widely available in virtually all languages. You’ll encounter them.
The time it takes to learn regular expressions will pay off because you’ll be reading them and writing them for your whole career.
- king_magic 6y agoEh, not necessarily. 15 years into my career, I can count the number of times I've needed regular expressions on two fingers.
- setr 6y agoExcept that all implementations are subtly and annoyingly different, and while you can transfer your general understanding, you can’t avoid the cheatsheet if you’re using multiple tools. But of course, since this is basically a one-to-one mapping, you can also trivially transfer your understanding to any other regex tool anyways (with a cheatsheet, which you’ll need in either case).