Did you know #Microslop #Excel supports #PCRE?

I was trying to extract some strings from a cell (written by one of those people who think that Excel is is just "Word with lines") when I thought "ugh, I wish I could just use a #regex."

Then I noticed this. Unfortunately, the documentation doesn't explain much, so it took some time to figure out their weirdness; no delimiters, no modifiers, etc. That aside, it does support capture groups, so I was able to extract all the values with a single regex.

Pretty handy!

Oha, #inotifywait kann keine #PCRE (Negatives Lookahead). Wie kann man dann mit -exclude sinnvoll Dateiendungen ausschließen?

Muss ich jetzt erst einen Converter entwickeln, um die Kernkonstrukte und Negationen auf POSIX abzubilden??

inotifywait patchen könnte einfacher sein 🤔

Filtering Unicode "Emoji" and other symbols is a hell with PCRE.

#Perl #PCRE #Unicode #Emojis

There is the possibility to change the case-sensitivity for a part of a #PCRE regular expression. If this is something new for you, read a use-case article: https://kudashevs.com/posts/2025/01/pcre-lookbehind-case

#programming #regex #RegularExpressions

From #punchcards to powerful #code in #opensource projects #PCRE and #Exim, Philip Hazel’s career is an exciting journey of #FOSS success and the evolution of #tech! 🐧

Dive into Hazel’s story on @LWN and consider carrying on the torch maintaining #PCRE2:

https://t.ly/RLY3Q

#LPI #LWN #techhistory #freesoftware #softwaredevelopment #github #perl #Linux #Unix #GPL #Apache #MariaDB