When Your Regex Matches Too Much

reddit subreddit regex Sql injection Pattern matching Escape characters String literals Banned

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When Your Regex Matches Too Much

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When your regex is so powerful it accidentally matches the entire subreddit template string. Congratulations, you've achieved peak pattern matching - your expression was so inclusive it got banned for "promoting hate." Next time try adding a few more escape characters before you accidentally DELETE FROM users WHERE 1=1;

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