Why does this say that it is Case Sensitive. Gee, would that be "No one wins at \S+ golf."? Iron圜hef ( talk) 23:57, 9 January 2014 (UTC) 173.245.49.64 14:29, 6 January 2014 (UTC)ĭoes anyone understand the final "No, I had those already"? Is it a reference to regexes in some way or could it be something like that there are infinite problems in life, even when not doing (Meta-)*-Regexes? - 173.245.53.199 20:32, 6 January 2014 (UTC)Īccording to Peter Norvig (Director of research at google), one of the Regular Expression of Randall is wrong as demonstrated here : Mbussonn ( talk) 20:47, 6 January 2014 (UTC) There may still be superflous ones, that weren't elected but do match the regex, please check. I used a python script to generate it, with input from here, then I removed all presidents that do not match after finding they really weren't elected.
I added a list of all US elected presidents and the part of the title regex they match. Inspired by, a reader built a page where the objective is to make a regular expression to match all Star Wars and no Star Trek. Gerald Ford wasn't elected, he became President following Nixon's resignation.ġ73.245.52.209 12:12, 6 January 2014 (UTC) I haven't tried everything, but that regex doesn't match "gerald ford" at all. See for example - JakubNarebski ( talk) 11:03, 6 January 2014 (UTC) Perl golf) is a programming competition / is a pastime of finding regular expression that matches one set of strings while matching none of the other set. Verticalbar ( talk) 09:31, 6 January 2014 (UTC) I got a sneak preview of this comic at about 6:34 EST.at first it appeared to be random text in a irc message, but with this comic it now makes sense to me. Or you could just move the "b" into the "tn" group. So, if I add an "e" to the "tn" and delete the "|b" I'm a better golf player than her? 108.162.212.194 08:23, 6 January 2014 (UTC) 199.27.128.138 07:10, 6 January 2014 (UTC)Īttack ofhe Clones (to be read plainly, not as a regular expression). And before you tell me prequels don't count, the sole purpose of "m " is to match The Phanto m Menace.
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Oddly, so far as I can figure out, the regex in the first panel is wrong, in that it doesn't match the second Star Wars movie at all. It'll match anything containing a word ending in m, any word beginning with n or t that is not the first word, or any word with a b. This is the case for all Star Trek Subtitles. So either the punchline is really weak-worth a chuckle if you got the above two references-or I missed the joke.ġ99.27.128.63 06:22, 6 January 2014 (UTC)Ĭould anybody comment on the first regex? Do I get it right thatīeyond others it will match all strings that contain a "b"? I can hardly believe that is not the case for any star trek subtitle. Thus, the punchline is that the addition of meta layers to regex golf generates more problems for the programmer, but that was also the setup of the comic. Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. The last panel includes, of course, a regex "/(meta-)*regex golf/," which represents the phrase "regex golf" preceded by the phrase "meta-" up to infinite times.Īs a punchline, it also refers to Jamie Zawinski's well-known quote about regex, You can then apply ad infinitum, and the universe implodes or something. This means that you could write a regular expression that would look for another regular expression.
The joke is that regular expressions are used to search text, but themselves are text strings. Regex golf is a game in which you attempt to write a regular expression that will search through a list of items and bring back only those items that meet a certain criteria, but not anything else. For example, you could write a regular expression that would search for anything that looks like an address (a la comic 208).
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A regular expression is a series of characters that denotes a search criteria.
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