On 20/03/2020 13:39, druck wrote:
> 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.
>
No. The time to learn how to do it properly exceeds the time to do it
the way I know so vastly that my life will be over before I *need* to
learn it.

> ---druck
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