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last time when did you use Regular Expressions? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 months ago by kionite231@lemmy.ca to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] DeprecatedCompatV2@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Yesterday, for capturing URLs.

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

https?//[a-zA-Z0-9_-]*

I am kinda learning RE right now 😅

[–] DeprecatedCompatV2@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What about ftp? 🤔

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If we want to include every protocol then the RE could be complex.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Depending on the use-case it maybe should. On the other hand, some things are better left to library implementations rather than custom regex, e.g. email validation

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