what debugging regex feels like

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In case you don't know this one yet:

https://regexr.com/
- Yeah there are a few tools like that. I actually like this approach myself, you write it in a human readable form and then it gets compiled into a regex https://github.com/cmccomb/human_regex
Worse: Debugging regex that needs to be passed as a string\.
- I herd u liek escape characters so I escaped your escaped your escaped your escape characters.
  
  Insert obligatory \\\\\\\\Xzibit
Now you’ve got 𒐂 problems.
You don't use a regex generator/decoder? You actually tried to learn what that shit means??
- Hey, there's something magical about knowing what a negative look behind zero length assertion is.
  
  I think I understand half of that without looking it up
  
  Would-be regex compiler writers wince as they realise they can't just implement a FSA 😢
- Those regex crosswords ain't gonna solve themselves...
Just learn some computer science and regexes will suddenly start making sense

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