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4:20 AM

I can afford the arrogance to tell someone they try to use regex for something that can't be parsed though it. For everything else, there are try-it websites.

some regex are also code worthy of importing a third party enclosure.

I believe there is some trauma associating regex with the way they are taught. Fundamentally though they are efficient problem solvers.

9 hours later…

Sarov

1:16 PM

Specifically for html it is quite a PITA, though.

I probly could've made it work, via atomic grouping, but there reaches a point where you're using regex out of stubbornness, rather than good code.

Arthur Hv

2:01 PM

You can't make regex for html bc it's not a regular language. Like for example you can't check if something is well parenthesized through a regex.

Journeyman Geek

@ArthurHv there's a SE meme about that....

Sarov

In this case, because it was very specific html that I was generating, I coulda done it. But it'd be gross.

@JourneymanGeek Scroll up a bit. :P

Journeyman Geek

SO IT HAS COME TO THIS....

Arthur Hv

Ok maybe in subsets you can always manage dirty tricks

Sarov

Yeahr.

Arthur Hv

2:03 PM

I know why your colleagues would hate you if you do this though

Sarov

Specifically, I was turning an IEnumerable of ints (say, 2, 4, 8) into:
"<a href='myLongUrl/2'>2</a>, <a href='myLongUrl/4'>4</a> and <a href='myLongUrl/8'>8</a>".

Arthur Hv

This would be like idk choosing C to implement an html webesrver

Or even Java to implement a program

Sarov

At first I was using Regex.Replace but I figured it was better to give up and just:
var commaSeparated = string.Join(", ", hyperlinks);
var lastCommaIndex = commaSeparated.LastIndexOf(",", StringComparison.Ordinal);
var formatted = commaSeparated.Remove(lastCommaIndex, 1).Insert(lastCommaIndex, " and");

@ArthurHv Ha! That was my primary lang back in uni.

Arthur Hv

2:40 PM

i knew it. All pms ever use java

Sarov

Wow racist!

(PMs are too a race. Probably.)

Arthur Hv

2:54 PM

hmmm

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