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Re:The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014) by j1elo on Thursday July 08, 2021 @07:12PM (#27778747)
> I'm more-or-less waiting for the "blank" in: "blank" is to Python what Regex is to Perl.

This will sound like a forced joke but I genuinely didn't understand your phrase. I got stuck re-reading several times the "blank" in: "blank" part, but my mental language regex wasn't matching the expression.

I think the bug is caused by a bogus quote that causes a bad parameter expansion. My regex engine parses this better: the "blank" in: "blank is to Python what Regex is to Perl"

Off by one errors...

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Re:The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014) by taneq on Friday July 09, 2021 @01:30AM (#27780722)
They're waiting for the X in "X : Python :: regexp : perl" - does this help?
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Re:The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014) by unstatedAnswers on Thursday July 08, 2021 @11:53PM (#27780313)
Haha, I love your explanation of this! Human communication is difficult, and using syntax incorrectly makes it even moreso
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