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what debugging regex feels like (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At my company we store our regex in the database with linebreaks in it, but when it's actually called to be used those line breaks are stripped out. That way regex that looks for X can all be all on one line and actually readable.

[–] tyler 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

wait... why do you have so many regexes you need to put them in a database???

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My job is regex.

[–] tyler 2 points 6 days ago

Ummmmmmmm