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what debugging regex feels like (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If they are Perl regexes, like all regexes are supposed to be, you can have non-semantic whitespace and comments.

But if you are using some system that enforces something different, you are out of luck.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

Not necessarily. For just debugging purposes, you can still break them up to help understand them. Even ignoring that, there are options in languages that don't implement /x.

https://wumpus-cave.net/post/2022/06/2022-06-06-how-to-write-regexes-that-are-almost-readable/index.html