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Does anyone else who doesn't work with regular expressions on a regular basis feel like a champ whenever they write one successfully?  ^{_{(self.programming)}
83 points posted 4 hours ago by benihana 86 comments share save hide report}

↑ benihana 24 points 3 hours ago* [-]
↓ I'm a web developer and I rarely use regular expressions. But when the need to use one does arise,
   and I write one that does what I expect without having to consult anything, I feel like I just
   discovered general relativity. Anyone else feel a great sense of triumph over the natural,
   unordered chaos of text?
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You actually read the whole thing? Jesus christ. I can understand a two page tutorial; hell thats about the cumulative amount of documentation on using regex that I have read. (Obviously excluding things particular to a specific implementation like class names for java, delimiters for .js etc..) I have no fucking clue how or why anybody would need 368 pages to learn regular expressions; except perhaps the author and publisher of that book.