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Chapter M8: Trans-Siberian Action Sequence | Part 13

ccznen

on May 25, 2022

Regular Expressions, or Regex for short, are sequences of symbols that are meant to help computers match patterns in plaintext. They are powerful tools, but very obtuse and hard to read. This, for example, is a valid Regex I found on StackOverflow:

\^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+)*)|(\".+\"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/

Now, if that wouldn’t summon an unholy abomination, I don’t know what will.