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Honestly, if you are a "Regular" programmer, then RegEx would not be a problem in the first place. Without them, you are more of a "stunted" programmer. Far be
by teilo 17y ago
Honestly, if you are a "Regular" programmer, then RegEx would not be a problem in the first place. Without them, you are more of a "stunted" programmer.
Far better than cludges and crutches is a good RegEx tester, for example: http://www.regextester.com/ http://www.regextester.com/
Put in the real deal. Put in what you expect to match, and tweak until you get it right and understand why it wasn't working before.
- jlgosse 17y agoI agree with most of what you had to say. I do not, however, agree with the first part of your comment. A lot of gifted programmers simply have no real need to use regular expressions, especially if they develop primarily in Java. This is just unfortunate for them, as they end up not learning them at all. This doesn't necessarily mean they are "stunted", but just unlucky.