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last time when did you use Regular Expressions? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] DeprecatedCompatV2 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yesterday, for capturing URLs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

https?//[a-zA-Z0-9_-]*

I am kinda learning RE right now 😅

[–] DeprecatedCompatV2 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What about ftp? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If we want to include every protocol then the RE could be complex.

[–] sukhmel 1 points 5 months ago

Depending on the use-case it maybe should. On the other hand, some things are better left to library implementations rather than custom regex, e.g. email validation