• stewie410@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    I don’t know all of the regex rules (look ahead/behind, etc); but it’s honestly not that bad. If you can learn the syntax for a programming language, you can learn the basics of regex…

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      7 months ago

      Sure, learning basics of regex is not that hard, but complex regex expressions can easily become impenetrable. I actually like the verbal expressions idea where you write out the regex using a long form and that gets compiled into the actual regex, e.g:

      const tester = VerEx()
          .startOfLine()
          .then('http')
          .maybe('s')
          .then('://')
          .maybe('www.')
          .anythingBut(' ')
          .endOfLine();
      

      That seems like the best of both world approach to me.

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        7 months ago

        My brief experience with LINQ has also taught me to prefer this type of thing as well; though I still use regex on a daily basis most of the time, given my environment.