Regular Expressions

[chrisinajar]

Warning, if you don't know regular expressions then the following will inevitably hurt your brain...

So yeah, they're amazing, I wrote this gem today: ==\n\r(^\*\[\[.*$\n\r)*(^[^=].*$\n\r)*

[Cheeseomlett]

Hmmm I wonder whats goin on in this thrOH GOD MY BRAIN!

[Weegee]

wat

[Ihaveworms]

I can create one, but trying to figure out what one does without any knowledge of what is it used for is another ball game 

[chrisinajar]

Yeah, perl scripts are like an explosion in an ASCII factory.

[Bobby's Pipes]

Hmm. So Regular Expressions = Michael J. Fox typing on a keyboard?

So yeah, they're amazing, I wrote this gem today: ==\n\r(^\*\[\[.*$\n\r)*(^[^=].*$\n\r)*

So that's about the only thing I got out of that.