On 19/03/2020 17:48, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> No. That's why I don't bother with regex, ever.
> 
> Its far faster for me to write a series of tests in 'C' then try and 
> work out what random gobbledygook will do the job in regex.
> 
> Regex is for nerds to impress other people with. Its not a smart way to 
> program.
> 
> Same as SQL. By the time you have taken a day to write the SQL query 
> that does everything you want, only to realise it takes 50 minutes to 
> complete, you could have written most of  it in C and got it down to 3 
> seconds...

Tl;dr - I don't know how to do it properly, therefore it is crap.

---druck

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