The One Regex To Rule Them All

stack overflow regex Lord of the rings Syntax Copy paste Code horror Pattern matching Elvish

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The One Regex To Rule Them All

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The One Ring of regex has been discovered. Looking at that pattern is like staring into the void. Senior devs with 20 years of experience still copy-paste regex from Stack Overflow because deciphering that cryptic nonsense is basically a dark art. If Mordor had a programming language, regex would be its syntax.

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