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Re:A functioning Turing Machine using Notepad++ and its find... by Semaphor on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @01:07PM (#30431208)
Yeah, but they don't call it "regex" which would be the scary part.
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Re:A functioning Turing Machine using Notepad++ and its find... by RHSeeger on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @01:45PM (#30431795)
Ah, I interpreted the original statement as

> Some [people] by "regex" mean "globs"

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Re:A functioning Turing Machine using Notepad++ and its find... by Semaphor on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @12:30AM (#30437996)
Ah, that makes far more sense. Though it makes OPs argument even more nonsensical ;)
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