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Parser Combinators Beat Regexes

Someone online was solving Advent of Code problems, and had a question about last years’ day 3 . They had a working solution using regular expressions (regexes) on String values, but they wanted to use ByteString values instead for performance reasons. They were surprised, however, that there seems to be a lack of…
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Apr 9, 2025Parser Combinators Beat Regexes by mooreds12293

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