i just copy someone else's regex and try to change it into something that worms
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Regex search is such a life changer.
I hate the fact that regex doesn't work in browser page search. Even if it was super buried, there are so many times it would have been useful to have. It's a major pet peeve of mine.
Another is when webpages de-load text once you scroll past it. You have infinite scroll, I want to use that to load up a whole chunk of history and do a ctrl-f (bonus points if my ctrl-f could have been regex). It's not my fault your site's shitty search is worse than a ctrl-f. You don't have to make it even shittier by preventing me from using it.
FACTS
I'd learn regex, but it looks like what non-programmers think code looks like.
To make things even more fun, regex differs in subtly different ways, the regex that works in perl might not work in sed. There are two main dialects, BRE and ERE, and lots of tool specific additions. So I find myself wondering if grep is using extended regular expressions, or is that in egrep, or is egrep the standard grep nowadays? One time I saw Russ Cox use Acme, and I saw the real power of regex when used by someone intuitively. But I am no Russ Cox.
And then you might have to escape every escape character because it needs to go into a string first, making everything even more complex.
I'm quite a fan of Regex Crossword (for both learning and practicing). As the name implies, crosswords but with regex! Quite fun, at least for me.
Oh hey, that's neat!
Yep that's also how I learned it, agree that it's fun!
I'd learn regex, but it looks like the kind of tool that programmers would shove into every single search function hole and expect everyone to know it even though it makes no sense for it to be there.
You can do surprisingly mich with just regex, but often enough there are better tools for a certain task. However if you want to do anything with bash, you will See Quite a lot of regex.
I hate that browser search had no native regex, and all the regex find extensions* are trash.
* what's available on amo, Im not using chromium based browser.
I’d be happy just to have a search that respects a negative modifier (operator?)
Omg yes. I absolutely hate the lack of regex search in browsers. There are so many times it would be useful. Mostly around either numbers or conjugations of verbs. But regex is so powerful, let me turn on a secret browser flag to enable it if I have to.
What's amo though? A Firefox-based browser? Or its own whole thing?
Amo = addons.mozilla.org
this but 100% reversed
this is actually the more common usage of this memetic form for a few years now, kind of for subversion and ironic effect. im with you, in other words. im making fun of the person in the last panel. :P
"You use AI because you think it's the future; I use it because I can't learn regex to save my life. We are not the same"
kind of tea
.... regex can be useful..
ule meme? egex meme?
fixed lol 😂
ule mem\? egex mem\?
I am literally doing step 3 at my work today. By now I somewhat understand the structure, but there is no time to really learn it myself
My thesis has always been that AI should serve human labor, not replace it. Regex is a perfect example of that I think, because no one was ever hiring “regex technicians” we were just slogging through it ourself.
But instead we have genAI taking artists’ and writers’ jobs while the wealth gap keeps growing… models and actors swapped with community-destroying data centers churning slopvertisements.
Yeah, I will always be a proud Luddite.
Honestly, there have been cases where I got AI to write some regex for me because I was on a crunch and didn't wanna spend forever figuring it out. Also I was using Kate and they make it especially weird for regex
email the company whose devs intercept ctrl+f and replace it with a useless dud functionality, complain about it (but they have a captive market so no point)