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Re:ReX.js – Your RegEx companion by pmarreck on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @07:32AM (#18493345)
Which is why I use expanded regex with each section commented.
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Re:ReX.js – Your RegEx companion by bhengaij on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:35PM (#18499537)
What is expanded regex?
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Re:ReX.js – Your RegEx companion by grzm on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:42PM (#18499572)
They're likely referring to the \x modifier, also called extended regular expressions:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24642616/what-are-extend...

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Re:ReX.js – Your RegEx companion by bhengaij on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @12:40AM (#18500399)
I had not known about this- makes things so much easier to maintian
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