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Hello Monastery - long time, no see.

As the Brothers here grow old and gray (or grey, I suppose - TMTOWTDI), we must surely be contemplating the eternal.

Leading me to wonder this morning... What's a good regular expression for your tombstone?

Maybe:

die "Normal termination" if /life$/;

Share your best idea!

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Re: Regex On Your Tombstone?
by LanX (Saint) on May 19, 2021 at 19:52 UTC

     
       
         
       
       
     
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    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

      Ladies and gentlemen, after due consideration, I believe we have a winner. Bonus points for the ascii art. :-)
        > I believe we have a winner.

        Oh great, many thanks. =)

        I couldn't come up with a shorter regex tho...

        > for the ascii art. :-)

        <table> art, please! ;-)

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery

      Bravo! (I had to log-in just to up-vote this)
        Thanks!

        Seems like I scored an eagle in tombstone golfing ... ;-)

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery

Re: Regex On Your Tombstone?
by Fletch (Bishop) on May 19, 2021 at 14:37 UTC

    $socrates =~ m{I drank what\?};

    Edit: reference for those that might need it.

    The cake is a lie.
    The cake is a lie.
    The cake is a lie.

Re: Regex On Your Tombstone?
by LanX (Saint) on May 19, 2021 at 19:45 UTC

     
       
         
       
       
     
     
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    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

Re: Regex On Your Tombstone?
by jo37 (Deacon) on May 19, 2021 at 19:32 UTC
    while (/(*FAIL)/) { redo; } END { /(*ACCEPT)/; }

    Greetings,
    -jo

    $gryYup$d0ylprbpriprrYpkJl2xyl~rzg??P~5lp2hyl0p$
Re: Regex On Your Tombstone?
by VinsWorldcom (Prior) on May 19, 2021 at 18:42 UTC

    Again, not REGEX, but ...

    return bless $self, $class

    Reincarnation?

Re: Regex On Your Tombstone?
by Discipulus (Canon) on May 20, 2021 at 06:17 UTC
Re: Regex On Your Tombstone?
by salva (Canon) on May 21, 2021 at 16:52 UTC
Re: Regex On Your Tombstone?
by cavac (Parson) on May 28, 2021 at 15:50 UTC

    s/cavac//g

    Edit: Really a shame that the "e" modifier expects an expression, otherwise i could have used s/cavac//gone. Oh well...

    perl -e 'use Crypt::Digest::SHA256 qw[sha256_hex]; print substr(sha256_hex("the Answer To Life, The Universe And Everything"), 6, 2), "\n";'
      > i could have used s/cavac//gone . Oh well...

      heh! =)

      I tried RIP but the /r is nondestructive and will keep you alive... ;(

      DB<15> $_="cavac" DB<16> s/cavac//rip DB<17> p cavac

      update

      FWIW: I checked for synonyms for "dead", but since "e" is the most common letter in Ænglish ...

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery

        Hmm, the alternative would be to make the whole thing Terry Pratchett style and make sure the name is bounced around in the protocol overhead forever.

        s/(cavac)/"GNU $1"/

        I actually do something like this in my Net-Clacks IPC for a couple of people.

        perl -e 'use Crypt::Digest::SHA256 qw[sha256_hex]; print substr(sha256_hex("the Answer To Life, The Universe And Everything"), 6, 2), "\n";'

        As one author (can't remember who) once said: "Heroes don't die, they just fade away".

        perl -e 'use Crypt::Digest::SHA256 qw[sha256_hex]; print substr(sha256_hex("the Answer To Life, The Universe And Everything"), 6, 2), "\n";'
Re: Regex On Your Tombstone?
by 1nickt (Canon) on May 19, 2021 at 15:17 UTC

    Not a regexp but I plan to have "He sure flipped a lot of bits" on mine.


    The way forward always starts with a minimal test.
      He sure flipped a lot of bits
      You might as well get a Spoonerism in there too:

      He sure bipped a lot of flits.

      -QM
      --
      Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of

Re: Regex On Your Tombstone?
by QM (Parson) on May 31, 2021 at 15:18 UTC
    s/.*//m

    Besides the obvious language puns, a golfed Busy Beaver one-liner would be funny and deep. Heck, even the prime finder regex would be interesting. </code>

    -QM
    --
    Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of

Re: Regex On Your Tombstone?
by bibliophile (Prior) on Jul 15, 2021 at 19:08 UTC

    I'm not done yet...

    s/\eLife/\rLife/;
Re: Regex On Your Tombstone?
by Perlbotics (Archbishop) on May 20, 2021 at 17:28 UTC
    "Hier liegen meine Gebeine..." =~ /[Ee]\s+\w{2}b(\w+?)(\w)\b/ and die "ich wollt$2, $2s wär$2n d$1$2!"

    Doesn't rhyme much in English: Here lie my bones, I wished it were yo(u)rs.
    Wikipedia thinks it's by this guy.