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From: Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:15:41 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:43:41 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> boring babbled:
>On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:27:54 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:
>
>> Edge cases are regex achilles heal, eg an expression that only accounted
>> for 1 -> N chars, not 0 -> N, or matches in the middle but not at the
>> ends.
>
>That’s what “^” and “$” are for.

Yes, but people forget about those (literal) edge cases.