lenny(00:39:11)
like "..", instead the expected "..."
lenny(00:38:51)
i'm dealing with some subtitle lines, which have a few words with incomplete suspension points
mirrorbird(00:38:08)
also: windows vs linux can fuck you up (you know the usual \n \r\n line break)
mirrorbird(00:37:50)
a tip from my experience: if you KNOW it's right but it isn't working, it's probably the flags (like 'treat newline as spaces') never forget the flags
mirrorbird(00:36:05)
anyway i still use regex. when really necessary. i consider it something painfully expensive, when actually messing with strings is not practical. POST YER PROBLEM !
mirrorbird(00:35:30)
of the two horrible choices, i picked the one that couldn't rape me with a pointer. i wrote perl for about 2 years, i can't remember any of it now, outside fever dreams
mirrorbird(00:35:08)
i learned it at the end of the 90s because i wanted to put "interactive" stuff on web pages, and your choices were: C on CGI, or Perl.
lenny(00:34:39)
but regex is a hard as shit to learn to me