Dr. Curiosity 💻🔬When you're fighting multiple layers of string-escaping in order to teach someone about multiple layers of string-escaping in order to teach someone about defining regular expressions in string literals... 🧐
...Today I learned that Mastodon's alt text box eats a level of backslash-escaping as well. So if you're reading the alt text, it's actually double the number - a full eight backslashes on the last line.
ocdtrekkie@DrCuriosity I loathe this process. I tried to get my .NET app to call out to the youtube-dl app via cmd line, and the escaping broke my soul.