I found your email address:

(?:[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*|"(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21\x23-\x5b\x5d-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])*")@(?:(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?|\[(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?|[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]:(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21-\x5a\x53-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])+)\])

It helps if you break it apart into its component parts. Which is like anything else, really, but we've all accepted that regexes are supposed to run together in an unreadable mess. No reason it has to be that way.

I have found chatgpt to be very good at writing regex. I also don't know how to write regex.

Just pop them into regex101 or a similar tool, add sample data, see the mistake, fix the mistake, continue to do other stuff.

I usually do

# What we are doing (high level)
# Why we need regex
# Regex step by step
# Examples of matches
regex

And I still rewrite it the next time

Regexr.com is my go-to.

Me checking my own docs: "this is some voodoo shit, idk how it works"

Downvoted so that everyone can know I'm cool since I understand regex better than the idiot who made that meme.

Never debug regex, just generate a new one. It's not worth the hassle to figure out not only what it does, but what it was meant to do.

Better yet, just write it out in code, and never use regex. Tis a stupid thing that never should have been made.

I know I'm weird, but I love regex.

If I have a complex regular expression to code into my app, I write it in pomsky, then copy paste the compiled regex to my source file, but also keep the pomsky source nearby. Much more maintainable.

This is basically code refactoring on a simplified level. You're basically renaming a whole bunch of functions/tokens at once.

Let's say you're renaming the variable 'count' under the method 'buttplug'. First off, what do you rename it to?

You start by replacing every instance of buttplug.count with a unique token, let's say tnuoc.gulpttub.

Then you replace that buttplug with a unique buttplug.

Simple.

There are a few online regex testing tools that will analyse your efforts and give you the opportunity to provide sample data.

LOL yeah that's about right.

Aziz! LIGHT!

Ohhhhh it was this extra '

There are no bugs, it's just not doing what you expect it to be doing...

... which, now that I think of it, can be said about all software in general.

awk-ward