My favorite regex of all time
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My favorite regex of all time
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Re: My favorite regex of all time
#2Are people seriously still deliberately using ASCII-reliant code?
Re: My favorite regex of all time
#3Are people seriously still deliberately using ASCII-reliant code?
It's interesting. Doesn't mean it's worthy of being put in production code.
Re: My favorite regex of all time
#4It's clever, but it's also completely unreadable for anyone who didn't read this article. Regexes have serious maintainability issues as it is; let's not make it worse by putting clever tricks in them.
Re: My favorite regex of all time
#5This will not only miss non-ascii printing characters, but it's not even much shorter than typing
[[:print:]]
Re: My favorite regex of all time
#6This works for ASCII only, use unicode character classes instead.
Re: My favorite regex of all time
#7As someone who makes much of his living rehabilitating old perl scripts, please, if you must use such things, use them like this:
[ -~] #match only printable characters
It takes 5 seconds longer and with regexes, just knowing what the damn thing is trying to do is half the battle. When you use a regex, use a comment. Its the civil thing to do.
Re: My favorite regex of all time
#8My favourite is this one:
http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
Re: My favorite regex of all time
#9As someone who makes much of his living rehabilitating old perl scripts, please, if you must use such things, use them like this: [ -~] #match only printable characters It takes 5 seconds longer and with regexes, just knowing what the damn thing is trying to do is half the battle. When you use a regex, use a comment. Its the civil thing to do.
Yea, anytime I use a regex that isn't immediately obvious I put it in a function called get_. Unfortunately people that write overly complicated and error prone regexes usually don't choose to document them.
Re: My favorite regex of all time
#10As someone who makes much of his living rehabilitating old perl scripts, please, if you must use such things, use them like this: [ -~] #match only printable characters It takes 5 seconds longer and with regexes, just knowing what the damn thing is trying to do is half the battle. When you use a regex, use a comment. Its the civil thing to do.
Unless you want to seem clever and impresse the PHB.
It is the selfish (but smart) thing to do.