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Re:Building a Regex Engine in Fewer Than 40 Lines of Code by mar77i on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @04:31AM (#15850771)
I'd almost admire how convenient it was that the language that was used ships regexes already.
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Re:Building a Regex Engine in Fewer Than 40 Lines of Code by majewsky on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @05:16AM (#15850907)
To be fair, he doesn't use the builtin regex support in his 40 LOC.
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Re:Building a Regex Engine in Fewer Than 40 Lines of Code by mar77i on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @10:40AM (#15852352)
TBH, that's exactly why I can't technically admire it. :)
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