On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 01:02:44AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
Yeah, regexes always look terrible when they're used for simple examples :) But try matching a line that has (somewhere in it) the word "spam", then whitespace, then a number (or if you prefer: then a sequence of ASCII digits). It's easy to write "spam\s+[0-9]+"
After this thread, I no longer trust that "easy" regexes will do what they "obviously" look like they should do :-( I'm not trying to be funny or snarky. I *thought* I had a reasonable understanding of regexes, and now I have learned that I don't, and that the regexes I've been writing don't do what I thought they did, and presumedly the only reason they haven't blown up in my face (either performance-wise, or the wrong output) is blind luck. Now I have *three* problems :-( -- Steve