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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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I was really implicitly asking why you would buy it in the first place as opposed to why you would read it, although admittedly the two go hand in hand with some slightly differing consequences.