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Christ, the mess that are the docs. And the complexity. Just lost well over an hour trying to get a non-trivial regex working (that would have taken me 30 secs
by zasdffaa 4y ago
Christ, the mess that are the docs. And the complexity. Just lost well over an hour trying to get a non-trivial regex working (that would have taken me 30 secs in emacs). Gave up and just used split() and it just worked. Never again, I swear.
- custard42 4y agoWhat was the problem -- the regex pattern, or some API?
- zasdffaa 4y agoCapture pattern [edit: I meant capture brackets] extraction. Could get one of them (?!) or nothing at all, but... never again. MS doc examples = no success, not SO, not various blogs.
- Akronymus 4y ago> Christ, the mess that are the docs. You don't love getting 404s almost all the time?
- octopoc 4y agoMight want to check out RegexStorm [1]. It's a .NET regex tester in your browser. Yeah the docs are great but there's nothing like instant feedback to test your regex. [1] http://regexstorm.net/tester http://regexstorm.net/tester
- zasdffaa 4y agoThanks but regexes I know pretty well, the regex object docs just were horrible.