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TFA: > OnlyFans is getting out of the pornography business. HN: s/of the pornography //

• frutiger 5y ago
  >TFA: >> OnlyFans is getting out of the pornography business. >HN: > s/of the pornography //. …is getting out business?
  • quickthrowman 5y ago
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    • jolmg 5y ago
      I think they mean that it should be s/the pornography //, rather than s/of the pornography //, so it's "out of business."
      • dwighttk 5y ago
        But then you still have “getting”
        • majewsky 5y ago
          s/getting \(.* \)the pornography /going \1/ Happy now? :)
  • qzw 5y ago
    Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. -- Jamie Zawinski
    • bluepnume 5y ago
      I didn't spot any regexes here.
      • qzw 5y ago
        Matching an exact string is also a valid regex, and I think the GP's simple attempt to use the substitution syntax illustrates JWZ's point even better than a more complex expression. There are so many ways of screwing it up that even a simple joke contained a bug.
      • Banana699 5y ago
        The notation s/<regex1>/<regex2> is perl for "replace every instance matching regex1 by regex2. Literal strings are regexes that match only themselves.
        • bzbarsky 5y ago
          Not just perl. Also sed, which is likely where perl got it from.
          • majewsky 5y ago
            Not just sed. Also ed, which is where sed got it from.
            • bzbarsky 5y ago
              Yes, indeed. :)
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  • cryptonector 5y ago
    Ay, yes, I was, you know, just making an off-hand comment.
• IncRnd 5y ago
  It would have been better to get a code review or to test before checking-in that incorrect code.