So I typed 4 characters in a hour
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My son asked my how much my employer payed me for each character, wow. Got my regex expression to work with a negative lookahead and now it works! And my validator works! WooHoo. I tried to tell my 11th grade son about regex and 4 characters in an hour to make it all work is really quite a deal. But he shook his head, quoted the price per character and walked off. children, pfft. It's regex for goodness sake.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.... knowing the right four characters: priceless. :cool:
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My son asked my how much my employer payed me for each character, wow. Got my regex expression to work with a negative lookahead and now it works! And my validator works! WooHoo. I tried to tell my 11th grade son about regex and 4 characters in an hour to make it all work is really quite a deal. But he shook his head, quoted the price per character and walked off. children, pfft. It's regex for goodness sake.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.He doesn't pay you "per character" - he pays you four knowing which for characters to use... it's an old joke...[^] but that doesn't mean it's not true. :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My son asked my how much my employer payed me for each character, wow. Got my regex expression to work with a negative lookahead and now it works! And my validator works! WooHoo. I tried to tell my 11th grade son about regex and 4 characters in an hour to make it all work is really quite a deal. But he shook his head, quoted the price per character and walked off. children, pfft. It's regex for goodness sake.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.So you're not just one type A character; you're four of them? If psychiatry weren't utter bollocks, I'd suggest that you get therapy.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My son asked my how much my employer payed me for each character, wow. Got my regex expression to work with a negative lookahead and now it works! And my validator works! WooHoo. I tried to tell my 11th grade son about regex and 4 characters in an hour to make it all work is really quite a deal. But he shook his head, quoted the price per character and walked off. children, pfft. It's regex for goodness sake.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.Reminds me of the old joke: A well known rich businessman's wife broke her hip. The businessman got the best bone surgeon in town to do the operation. The operation consisted of lining up the broken hip and putting in a screw to secure it. The operation went fine, and the doctor sent the business man a fee for his services of $50,000. The businessman was outraged at the cost, and sent the doctor a letter demanding an itemized list of the costs. The doctor sent back a list with two things: ```text 1 screw $ 1 Knowing how to put it in $49,999 TOTAL $50,000 ``` The businessman never argued.
cheers Chris Maunder
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My son asked my how much my employer payed me for each character, wow. Got my regex expression to work with a negative lookahead and now it works! And my validator works! WooHoo. I tried to tell my 11th grade son about regex and 4 characters in an hour to make it all work is really quite a deal. But he shook his head, quoted the price per character and walked off. children, pfft. It's regex for goodness sake.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.Eggbert Bartholomew Bligh wrote:
It's regex for goodness sake.
:laugh: :thumbsup: I have spent a good deal of time working with regexes (is that the correct plural form?). It's always a great fun. And I just love the "invincible" feeling when I manage to get the expression to work. :cool:
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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My son asked my how much my employer payed me for each character, wow. Got my regex expression to work with a negative lookahead and now it works! And my validator works! WooHoo. I tried to tell my 11th grade son about regex and 4 characters in an hour to make it all work is really quite a deal. But he shook his head, quoted the price per character and walked off. children, pfft. It's regex for goodness sake.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.Eggbert Bartholomew Bligh wrote:
It's regex for goodness sake.
:laugh: :thumbsup: I have spent a good deal of time working with regexes (is that the correct plural form?). It's always a great fun. And I just love the "invincible" feeling when I manage to get the expression to work. :cool:
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Eggbert Bartholomew Bligh wrote:
It's regex for goodness sake.
:laugh: :thumbsup: I have spent a good deal of time working with regexes (is that the correct plural form?). It's always a great fun. And I just love the "invincible" feeling when I manage to get the expression to work. :cool:
You have just been Sharapova'd.
Yeah, that's why people climb Everest. No-one is stupid enough to try to make a career out of climbing Everest, though. There must be thirty easier to implement and far, far easier to maintain ways of doing anything that can be done with a regex. The only reason people use it is snooty bragging rights, and that's not a good reason for doing anything as part of your profession. And yes, I have used regex extensively, but I still rank it as only slightly less ridiculous than brainfuck.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah, that's why people climb Everest. No-one is stupid enough to try to make a career out of climbing Everest, though. There must be thirty easier to implement and far, far easier to maintain ways of doing anything that can be done with a regex. The only reason people use it is snooty bragging rights, and that's not a good reason for doing anything as part of your profession. And yes, I have used regex extensively, but I still rank it as only slightly less ridiculous than brainfuck.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
There must be thirty easier to implement and far, far easier to maintain ways of doing anything that can be done with a regex
Indeed! For most of the cases, a few if-else blocks and it's done. But regexes* are fun, although I don't use them too often. And it's fun to watch (and then help) people (with no or little clue about regexes*) when they are asked to write one. :rolleyes: * Again, not sure if that's the correct plural form.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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My son asked my how much my employer payed me for each character, wow. Got my regex expression to work with a negative lookahead and now it works! And my validator works! WooHoo. I tried to tell my 11th grade son about regex and 4 characters in an hour to make it all work is really quite a deal. But he shook his head, quoted the price per character and walked off. children, pfft. It's regex for goodness sake.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.I was always amazed how at this job I'm still around a few hundred euros per line of code after 3 years; I'm pretty sure I've written more lines in Word and Excel. I miss writing code, somewhat, but I've learned so much more by debugging. The most important is that I really miss debugging in Visual Studio :laugh: ; loading 20 meg binaries over JTAG and sometimes not having a working debugger is a pain, a fun pain. Not my fault they use me to put out fires.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
There must be thirty easier to implement and far, far easier to maintain ways of doing anything that can be done with a regex
Indeed! For most of the cases, a few if-else blocks and it's done. But regexes* are fun, although I don't use them too often. And it's fun to watch (and then help) people (with no or little clue about regexes*) when they are asked to write one. :rolleyes: * Again, not sure if that's the correct plural form.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
Agent__007 wrote:
* Again, not sure if that's the correct plural form.
For a quick fix, I'd go for regex[n]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
