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Re:Detailed guide on Regex by ddebernardy on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @09:43AM (#14847631)
Haven't read the guide, but off the bat it would benefit by at least mentioning the potential for regex with poor performance characteristics or even catastrophic backtracking, and give a few tips on how to avoid them. Neither performance nor backtracking appear in the text anywhere, nor do possessive or atomic.
Re:Detailed guide on Regex by tyingq on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @09:53AM (#14847690)
Word boundaries aren't mentioned either. I use \b quite a bit, was surprised to see it skipped.