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Solving the regex of madness, and snarky answers on StackOverflow (2019)
This infamous answer [https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/7488] on StackOverflow have reached meme status. The question is about finding opening tags in XHTML using a regular expression, and the answer makes it abundantly clear that this is not possible - and you will surely go mad if you try. The
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Software EngineeringWeb & Frontend2021
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2021 | Solving the regex of madness, and snarky answers on StackOverflow (2019) by monort | 117 | 126 |
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Linked from 5 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Sep 2019 to May 2023.
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