Edit: to everyone who responded, I use regex infrequently enough that the knowledge never really crystalizes. By the time I need it for this one thing again, I haven't touched it in like a year.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You always forget regex syntax?

I've always found it simple to understand and remember. Even over many years and decades, I've never had issues reading or writing simple regex syntax (excluding the flags and shorthands) even after long regex breaks.

[–] Akito@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

It's not about the syntax itself, it's about which syntax to use. There are different ones and remembering which one is for which language is tough.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most of regex is pretty basic and easy to learn, it's the look ahead and look behind that are the killers imo

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

(?=) for positive lookahead and (?!) for negative lookahead. Stick a < in the middle for lookbehind.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

You get used to it, I don't even see the code—I just see: group... pattern... read-ahead...