Just came across this and laughed so hard I had to share😂

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If Stack Overflow didn’t exist, I would never use regular expressions.

I make sure I understand them before I use them, but creating anything complex from scratch is not in my skillset.

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Chat GPT can do em like a champ. trouble I you still won’t know what it did afterwards but hey… Copy PASTA~!

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I’m scared to use them in production code, but I do appreciate programs that let you use them to search. Don’t need it often, but when I do it saves a ton of time.

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Regex has always been write-only code.

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I guess my pea brain is not able to process this one.

Explain the joke to me. :sheep:

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  1. You can write regex.

  2. Regex is unreadable.

Therefore, Regex is write-only.

QED

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Ok, now I get it.

I should get more rest.

Tired Good Night GIF by Disney

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Or, more appropriately

  1. ChatGPT can write regex.
  2. Regex is unreadable.
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@jtownsend , you’re nominated to teach regex in the coding camp thread.
The rules didn’t say I couldn’t volunteer anyone… :rofl:

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I’m down with that, but I’m going to say this up front: I’m just going to teach people how to prompt Copilot and then validate the output. Ain’t nobody got time in 2024 to be writing Regex by hand.

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You wanna make a real contribution, write up a syllabus for LINQ.
You don’t have to fill it all out, just a good guideline.

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Tempting. I’ve seen way too many posts here making looped DB calls. Which means it will probably need an intro on overall design patterns.

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Yeah, we need a lot of stuff in there. It’s a :dumpster_fire: by design but we will keep the top clean and organized. We’ll get there when we have more content.

Going through basics → advanced.

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guilty