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Re:Learn Regex the Easy Way by hashhar on Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:03PM (#14983586)
Relevant XCKD: http://www.xkcd.com/1205

This is a very big issue and one I recently faced in the workplace. Needed a script to parse some log files to generate CSV reports for the business users. I knew jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) and hence was able to write less than 10 lines of jq to do it combined with some preprocessing using sed.

I then realised that NOBODY on the team knew jq apart from me and I had to rewrite it in Python which took me 4 days to do correctly and handle everything that jq did for me.

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