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minus-squareBiscuityCat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days agoI never understood why are people scared of regular expressions. I love them and they can be quite usefull. Here is an example of one regex I wrote recently - it is used in replace: (?:^-\[[^[]+\]$| ?\[.+?\] ?)
minus-squareFunkt4st1c@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI started using regex because i need to rename a lot of my pirated media from “this_episode_uploaded_byXxXSuperEl33tSqwaaadXxX_MLP_s04_Episode7_bats.mkv” and linux deals with it very nicely. Much better than manual, anyways
I never understood why are people scared of regular expressions. I love them and they can be quite usefull.
Here is an example of one regex I wrote recently - it is used in replace:
(?:^-\[[^[]+\]$| ?\[.+?\] ?)I started using regex because i need to rename a lot of my pirated media from “this_episode_uploaded_byXxXSuperEl33tSqwaaadXxX_MLP_s04_Episode7_bats.mkv”
and linux deals with it very nicely. Much better than manual, anyways