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Finding my own old projects: “What the hell did this guy do and why does it work?”

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that is me with regex that I wrote from scratch like 5 mins ago

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Every regex that I write ends up looking like line noise or the holy tome to summon Chtulu.

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That’s why I like to include a comment with a link to an example on regex101.com.

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This is so smart. I’m stealing this.

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“Finally! It works! I’ll never touch it again! I’ll just move it in a variable and–… WHYYYY???!?!11!”

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Its always the backslash before the forward slash. Every. Time.

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10 points

Commenting regex fucking sucks. There’s really no good approach.

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