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Regex flavors (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by VegOwOtenks@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Blasphemy, that’s not regex that’s just fancy grep

[–] VegOwOtenks@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I don't actually know whether POSIX grep would support named groups :o

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't have you have to use the -P flag?

[–] OmnislashIsACloudApp@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

which is just perl mode

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Yes, but perl mode has more features.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 3 points 4 months ago

I don't fully disagree but you are walking on a fine line...

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

any idea what the re in grep stands for?