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 yeah, we used to use IPv4 addresses as an example when teaching regexes, because it seems like it'll be easy enough until you start actually doing it, the point of the lesson being "use regexes for what regexes are good at and then do the rest in some other language."
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@nickzoic @zwol loopback? that's easy: 0x7f000001
Mar 3 at 8:18amWeb