open up google
search for exactly the result you want
find an answer on stack exchange that isn’t just “nevermind figured it out”
copy and paste into your code
Coworker: “Hey, I got this really cool new tool that will solve this data filtering problem you had” Me:: “Cool! Let me check out the filters!” Coworker. “They are awesome and work by RegEx!” Me: “Nope, not interested.” Coworker: “But… it fits your needs exactly” Me: “I. said. NOT. INTERESTED!”
while :; do curl -X POST -d '{"text": "Removed by mod" }' https://lemmy.ml/post/13463433; done
Nothing to see here folks
Is there a less arcane way to perform searches similarly to regex?
There’s other, more verbose, regular expression languages, for instance SRFI-115 for Scheme. But the hard part isn’t the syntax, but actually thinking about patterns, so it won’t help you any.
Just get the O’Reilly bat book and learn. So what if it overwrites 10% of your brain and you can’t remember your mother’s face, you’ll have a useful skill.
Learn the regex rules.
Step 3: Name your cat ‘Regex’
Wrote a regex today and realized it looked like two people waving a hand ;D
Donut regex when???
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…
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.
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.
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SNEED HOT POCKETS SNEED SEED JANNIES JANNIES CITY SLICKER FLOYD SEETHE ON LEMMY PARK AVENUE MANICURE HOT POCKETS COPE CLEAN IT UP JANNIES SNEED’S FOR FREE PARK AVENUE MANICURE FUCK ON LEMMY CITY SLICKER PARK AVENUE MANICURE AND GUCCI LOAFERS SEED DILATE CITY SLICKER JANNIES JANNY FANCY GERMAN CAR SNEED HOT POCKETS SEED FEED FLOYD SUCK CHUCK’S PARK AVENUE MANICURE FANCY GERMAN CAR FANCY GERMAN CAR CHUCK’S GUCCI LOAFERS FLOYD COPE COPE SEETHE SNEED AND CHUCK’S SEED
that toast must really be evil…
FANCY GERMAN CAR JANNIES SNEED’S JANNIES CHUCK’S DILATE HOT POCKETS SUCK JANNIES CHUCK’S SNEED’S SUCK AND SUCK CHUCK’S CITY SLICKER JANNIES FLOYD I CAN’T FOR FREE SNEED FEED HOT POCKETS SNEED’S FEED FLOYD GUCCI LOAFERS SEED SUCK JANNIES FANCY GERMAN CAR JANNIES CHUCK I CAN’T SUCK CITY SLICKER DILATE CITY SLICKER JANNY GUCCI LOAFERS COPE FANCY GERMAN CAR SNEED’S SEED SEED COPE COPE AND PARK AVENUE MANICURE COPE
I CAN’T SEETHE SNEED SEED JANNY FLOYD CHUCK’S GUCCI LOAFERS JANNY FLOYD JANNIES SEETHE PARK AVENUE MANICURE CHUCK SEETHE GUCCI LOAFERS AND SEETHE I CAN’T SEED SEETHE CLEAN IT UP GUCCI LOAFERS HOT POCKETS HOT POCKETS HOT POCKETS PARK AVENUE MANICURE I CAN’T SNEED’S FUCK ON LEMMY GUCCI LOAFERS JANNY CLEAN IT UP DILATE SUCK SNEED’S SNEED ON LEMMY PARK AVENUE MANICURE AND I CAN’T JANNIES HOT POCKETS SEED CITY SLICKER CHUCK JANNY DILATE SNEED
FLOYD CLEAN IT UP JANNIES SEED FLOYD JANNIES CHUCK’S I CAN’T SNEED’S FEED SEETHE ON LEMMY FEED CITY SLICKER HOT POCKETS JANNY SEED DILATE CHUCK’S HOT POCKETS FUCK SNEED’S COPE CHUCK CHUCK CHUCK JANNIES SEED SEED SUCK FANCY GERMAN CAR FEED JANNIES AND CLEAN IT UP CITY SLICKER JANNY AND JANNY ON LEMMY SNEED’S SUCK CITY SLICKER FANCY GERMAN CAR CITY SLICKER DILATE CLEAN IT UP FLOYD FUCK HOT POCKETS
Hey ChatGPT, here’s an example string, how would you get this string out of it with <insert regex implementation>?
CHUCK SUCK PARK AVENUE MANICURE JANNY CITY SLICKER FANCY GERMAN CAR HOT POCKETS HOT POCKETS I CAN’T DILATE PARK AVENUE MANICURE ON LEMMY CITY SLICKER I CAN’T HOT POCKETS FOR FREE SEED DILATE CHUCK CHUCK’S FOR FREE SUCK CITY SLICKER SEETHE PARK AVENUE MANICURE GUCCI LOAFERS ON LEMMY HOT POCKETS HOT POCKETS SUCK HOT POCKETS ON LEMMY GUCCI LOAFERS DILATE SEED PARK AVENUE MANICURE ON LEMMY FUCK SNEED’S SEED GUCCI LOAFERS FANCY GERMAN CAR PARK AVENUE MANICURE CLEAN IT UP CHUCK’S SEED FLOYD JANNIES CHUCK’S FEED
COPE ON LEMMY JANNY CITY SLICKER I CAN’T JANNIES COPE JANNY ON LEMMY CHUCK COPE CHUCK FEED SNEED’S FLOYD CHUCK ON LEMMY FOR FREE JANNY FEED DILATE CLEAN IT UP FLOYD SUCK DILATE JANNY SEETHE HOT POCKETS FUCK HOT POCKETS CHUCK DILATE FOR FREE COPE SEED AND CITY SLICKER JANNY SEED CITY SLICKER SEED FUCK FUCK PARK AVENUE MANICURE JANNY ON LEMMY FLOYD HOT POCKETS CLEAN IT UP FLOYD