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Re:Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Friday June 10, 2022 @11:35AM (#31695610)
I'm not sure how useful even more powerful regex would actually be. Using large, complicated regexes is a very bug-prone practice in general.
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Re:Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language by nsajko on Friday June 10, 2022 @03:58PM (#31698738)
> Using large, complicated regexes is a very bug-prone practice in general.

Yes, this is exactly why extending RE is necessary.

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