Re^3: Regex replacing Brackets with horizontal tabs and newliners

I have a working script using CPAN, yet my manager said its way too easy and I should try achive the same thing by using only regex

That's plain stupid and a waste of time. If your manager regularly behaves like this, search for another job. It's just not worth wasting your time this way. Been there, done than.

Imagine a carpenter's manager telling him to put way all tools except for a rock with a sharp edge. Sure, you could build a house with that rock. But using modern tools is less risky and way faster.

Alexander

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Re^4: Regex replacing Brackets with horizontal tabs and newliners by Fletch (Bishop) on Sep 07, 2022 at 20:40 UTC
I was thinking about making a similar comment waffling between being slightly more tactful or much less so WRT said manager. JSON is a standard, there's off the shelf parsers for it that have been extensively tested. If you stick to "just" regexen you're reimplementing a perfectly good wheel for no benefit at the cost of less testing, a custom implementation that may not handle everything valid by the spec, may need tricky extra stuff like embedded code in the regex to get corner cases, . . . As a learning exercise, sure maybe. Production code? Inane is probably being kind. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply]

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Re^4: Regex replacing Brackets with horizontal tabs and newliners
by Fletch (Bishop) on Sep 07, 2022 at 20:40 UTC

I was thinking about making a similar comment waffling between being slightly more tactful or much less so WRT said manager. JSON is a standard, there's off the shelf parsers for it that have been extensively tested. If you stick to "just" regexen you're reimplementing a perfectly good wheel for no benefit at the cost of less testing, a custom implementation that may not handle everything valid by the spec, may need tricky extra stuff like embedded code in the regex to get corner cases, . . .

As a learning exercise, sure maybe. Production code? Inane is probably being kind.

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

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