Can This Regex Be Saved?

Earliest known poster for Can This Regex Be Saved?.

Can This Regex Be Saved? (Twitter edition)

Can This Regex Be Saved? is a reality television program which challenges participants to save troubled regular expressions from self-destruction.

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  Johnny Got His Code is an anti-war software development thriller film based on the novel by Dalton Trumbo about a military computer programmer (Jake Gyllenhaal) who finds himself trapped in a virtual military-industrial complex.

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  Is It Turing Complete? is a reality television series which challenges mathematicians to solve an increasingly difficult series of Turing-completeness problems.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Is It Turing Complete?
• Johnny Got His Code

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Reality television (nonfiction)
• Regular expression (nonfiction) - a sequence of characters that define a search pattern. Usually this pattern is used by string searching algorithms for "find" or "find and replace" operations on strings, or for input validation. It is a technique developed in theoretical computer science and formal language theory.

External links

• Regular expression @ Wikipedia
• RegexOne - learn regex through interactive exercises
• Regex Tester/Debugger @ regextester/com

Social media

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• Post @ Twitter (30 September 2022)