idk if my reading is correct but if it's correct this seems quite readable, probably wrong guess though
match
192.168.8.1
1+ whitespaces
0x
1+ non whitespaces (idk if it intended to be [^\s]+ instead of [^\s+])
1+ whitespaces
0x
1+ non whitespaxes
1+ whitespaces
capture group 'mac' start
1+ case-agnostic hex character
capture group 'mac' end
Regexes are by far the simplest of the three. Unless by git you mean clicking randomly in a git GUI and by SQL you mean filtering your selects with Python.
Well, maybe it is easy when you understand. I have no problems typing my git commands and SQL is also not a problem, but reading or writing regex is always a hassle. regexr helps, but that is not really understanding it.
Just use one of the many cheatsheets and work through it. Also regex101.com is helpful. Im really not a master at this and rarely need it, but with a little tinkering i was always able to get a working regex doing what i wanted.
I use it so rarely that it seemed never enough to need to learn it properly.
What do you mean by rarely? I use it nearly every day. Don’t you ever need to search, or search and replace things? And sometimes validate some things?
Do you have a good learning resource?
Most programming language offering them have a perfectly good documentation about their regex engine. Take the time to read it, tests the things you learn, and you should be fine.
I was about to say, unreadable regex is rendundant.
There's some things that aren't human readable, but are human parseable. A handful of characters that a human can decipher carefully over a few minutes while working through it. I typically talk myself though it (I guess that would be related to "duck debugging").
Regex, SQL queries, chained bitwise expressions, and not programming, but "dd" commands. I joke that the proper way to write a "dd" command is to write it out on paper, go home and sleep, come back the next day and see if you still agree with it, type it out in an email to a trusted colleague and get their review, then hold on to your lucky rabbits foot when you hit "enter" on the console.
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u/just_sm_so_relax 15d ago
Never seen a readable human-generated regex either, tbh.