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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > I still fucking love Perl
 
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Pablo Bluth
Sep 7, 2007

I've made a huge mistake.

shoeberto posted:

iirc perl has regex support, might try that
While the concept and implementation of regexp predates perl, the advanced form of regexp that we all know and love arose in perl. I doubt there will be another language where regexpes will be quite so central to a language's identity.

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Pablo Bluth
Sep 7, 2007

I've made a huge mistake.

shoeberto posted:

Jokes on you, I was being a gigantic dumbass. .. on PURPOSE!!

But yeah sorry I just assumed OP would have had experience to write an appropriate regex. The other post nailed it.
My regexp for matching sarcasm in a string was malformed...

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