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Regular expressions that work “everywhere”
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John Cook
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June 24, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
Computing
Regular expressions
programming
Regular expressions
software development
perl
Summary
The blog post discusses the inconsistencies in regular expression implementations across different tools and shares the author's experience learning them in Perl, highlighting the frustration that arises from these discrepancies.
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