G'day
Change: . Although this question covers a situation that can arise when programming a lot, I always noticed that it makes sense to work with regex's, especially. in Perl and with shell software, where they try to capture the last few cases:
- it takes much longer to expand your regular expression, which may mean
- excessive complexity in regular expression, which leads to
- headaches of future maintenance due to the complex nature of regular expressions, especially where it is not in Perl, so there is no good / x option to easily document regular expression fragments.
I have answered this question. Is there an easy way for a script to tell (out of context) whether "her" is a possessive pronoun? "and part of my answer was that you got to the point where chasing the last few percent of edge cases isn’t worth the extra effort and time to expand your regular expression, shell script, etc. It's easier to just mark the edge cases and go through them manually.
I was wondering if people have an easy way to understand that they are hitting this type of tipping point. Or is it something that comes only with experience?
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