Zack WeinbergMar 3

things that are much harder to describe accurately with a regex than you'd think, an incomplete list:

* floating point numbers
* IPv6 addresses
* IPv*4* addresses (depending on how you define them and how picky you are about the numeric ranges)
* ...

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@zwol Extra difficulty: recognize Fortran output of floating point number with less than perfect edit descriptor.
Mar 3 at 1:59amWeb
Show threadZack WeinbergMar 3

@pancomputans Day job brain is SCREAMING

(day job involves several file formats designed by Fortran programmers in the 1970s and possibly even earlier, y'see)