• Owl [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    You look up whatever regex library you're using's eagerness/laziness settings and pay very careful attention, because no two regex systems are the same, and anyone who claims they are is a smug script kiddy.

    • the_river_cass [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      yea but <noun phrase> is a hard pattern to match for, whatever your laziness settings

            • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
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              4 years ago

              Now that has the be the most cursed shit I've heard in a while comrade.

              Why not make it compile into befunge while we're at it?

              No but more seriously compiling code into regex is not always possible and when it is possible it it tends to be an absolute nightmare. I think a basic parser would be more efficient to implement, even if it means coding it in Rust or C instead of python.

      • Owl [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Oh god. I thought we were just going for the next word (chain of unicode letter characters, I know that's not actually correct all the time either). If you want to identify noun phrases... yeah don't use a regex. But also just don't get into a situation where you need to do that in the first place.

        • drowns [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          The person who got me into programming basically told me "don't get yourself into situations where you need regex, just find something else to do." While not really possible in a lot of cases, it does stand as good, practical advice.