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Re:Parsoid in PHP, or There and Back Again by SXX on Thursday February 13, 2020 @04:33AM (#22316450)
Yeah, I get that regular expressions might look complex and tangled like brainfuck looks for me since I never tried to learn it. Yet I just see comments on how regular expressions are hard to understand from all kind of IT people who solving hundred times more complex puzzles every day. I guess it's just reputation that stick to certain technology and really have nothing to do with actual complexity.
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Re:Parsoid in PHP, or There and Back Again by hatch_q on Thursday February 13, 2020 @05:24AM (#22316631)
Experience i guess. I've spent hundreds of hours on debugging and fixing regexes that other people wrote - usually just to find there's a quirk in certain regex parser implementation.

Regexes are easy to understand if you write them, but reading them can take lots of time.

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