Questions tagged [regex]
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Automatically recognize and remove "thanks"
There is a regex that should automatically remove all greetings from the top of posts. It does its job very well:
^ # begins at start of body
\s* # possible spaces
(
hii?...
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Padding a comment with spaces
Currently, the 15 char minimum on comments can be defeated by padding out the middle with spaces.
Fix:
s/\s+/ /
HTML ignores extra spaces anyway.
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How to handle regex syntax highlighting [duplicate]
Many questions about regex include code blocks with language agnostic, POSIX compatible patterns, using default prettifying. (Example)
This looks kind of ugly and is confusing, since some parts are ...
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