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What's also a bit of a pain is when you click Show Solution you still have to type it in the box to continue. Apart from that I love it! I normally use regexr.
by somedude895 5y ago
What's also a bit of a pain is when you click Show Solution you still have to type it in the box to continue.
Apart from that I love it! I normally use regexr.com and just mess around with it until I get the desired result. It also helps with learning, but you end up never truly understanding the concepts.
- leokennis 5y agoFor most purposes, sites like that or https://regex101.com/ https://regex101.com/ are fine. But, small differences in regexes (greediness, backtracking) can make huge performance differences that you won't notice when testing it on 2 or 3 lines on a site like that. A nice example was a big Cloudflare outage in 2019: https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the-cloudflare-outage-on-july-2-2019/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the-cloudflare-outage... So for anyone using regex in (1) production as (2) part of an automation / regular process (i.e. not a one time search) on (3) sizeable amounts or reoccurrences of data, I'd really advice gaining a deeper understanding of what the various options do.