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lemmy.world

Wondering if someone could create a less tricky alternative to regex.

Cloudflare’s infamous outage was also one regex character off.

Regexng could result a longer string, but more human readable than plain old regex.

Basically regexng could be regex with more syntactic sugar.

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Wondering if someone could create a less tricky alternative to regex.

This is the only alternative I’ve ever seen. Good luck finding a working implementation.

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Looks more like they didn’t sanitize the input properly, causing the top result Notepad++ be interpreted as a regex.

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Leoreply

Good find. Relevant bit:

Hi all (CEO & Founder, DuckDuckGo here). Looks like something may have broken in a release that went out today -- it is triggering a JS error. We're looking into it now and should have it resolved soon.

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That's super useful.

Edit: it was a blank results page when I posted this comment

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