8 Nov
2019
8 Nov
'19
4:26 a.m.
Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 06:42:44AM -0500, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
... Jeez regex is a pain - it took three minutes of staring at that just to figure it out, even though I knew what we were both trying to achieve.
Practice time!
Oooh, fun! The Hamlet puzzle took a few minutes to sort out. But then I'm not a regular crossworder. One of the guys I work with claims that any use of regexen requires multiple lines of comment to explain, but I'm firmly of the opinion that being able to sight-read them is a basic Unix programming skill. -- Anthony de Boer