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Welcome to the RegEx community! This is a place where you can learn about and get help with regular expressions
A regular expression is a sequence of characters that specifies a match pattern in text. Theyre usually used for find, or find and replace operations on strings, or for input validation.
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Yeah totally! I would encourage everyone to try it with their workflow and see where it can make a difference and where it falls short.
Reason I made an example out of regex is b/c of how much hate it gets :D I definitely see why regex is widely appreciated.
Theres like a whole class of "Stuff you have to relearn every time you have to use it": XPath, JMESPath, cron, ffmpeg, ImageMagick, PostScript etc.. REGEX might be king of those :p
😂 If I could summarize my engineering career, that would be the one liner.