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Re:A regex crossword from LinkedIn Engineering by akavi on Friday March 11, 2016 @12:15PM (#11267912)
What I got out of this: regex precedence rules are really unintuitive to me.
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Re:A regex crossword from LinkedIn Engineering by betenoire on Friday March 11, 2016 @12:47PM (#11268174)
What is a precedence rule in regex? You can either derive a string or you can't. Precedence problems result in ambiguity, there shouldn't be any ambiguity here
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Re:A regex crossword from LinkedIn Engineering by sedeki on Friday March 11, 2016 @01:25PM (#11268492)
The regex operators can be ordered by precedence. The whole point is of course to avoid ambiguity...?
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