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   Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 01:16:11 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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   • Al Sweigart

   @AlSweigart I rather like them. Found it suddenly stuck better in my brain than before.

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     Al Sweigart (alsweigart@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 01:16:12 JST Al Sweigart

     Quick question about regex: Do these constant names make sense for these patterns?

     ANYTHING is the lazy .*? pattern.

     EVERYTHING is the greedy .* pattern.

     SOMETHING is the lazy .+? pattern.

     (I don't have a name for the greedy .+ pattern. Maybe ALL_OF_IT?)

     And the . is ANYCHAR, while the escaped \. is PERIOD.

     Are these names intuitive?