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Re:Regular Expressions – Mastering Lookahead and Lookbehind by Retra on Friday March 16, 2018 @02:09AM (#16598969)
JS programmers don't need to know how a C pointer works, but they're not doing themselves any favors by being ignorant of it. It's very basic basic background knowledge.
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Re:Regular Expressions – Mastering Lookahead and Lookbehind by m3kw9 on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:12PM (#16601589)
I meant to say they do not need to be great beyond basics like using wild cards, and simple Inclusion and exclusion syntax. That’s probably more than 50% of time all you need on that side of he world
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Re:Regular Expressions – Mastering Lookahead and Lookbehind by Retra on Friday March 16, 2018 @06:24PM (#16604422)
Yeah, that's true. If you understand the quantifiers and matching groups, you basically understand regex. That's all I'm referring to. I'm not saying everyone has to be an expert on implementing them.
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