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		thrdbndndn on March 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Regex character "$" doesn't mean "end-of-string" Definitely not common, but if you are parsing a text file you're going to use it a lot (say, you're writing a JS parser).

marcosdumay on March 20, 2024 [–]

You really shouldn't use a lot of regexes for parsing code.

They go only on the tokenizer, if they go somewhere at all.

thrdbndndn on March 20, 2024 | [–]

Agreed, it's more about quick and dirty ad hoc capture than full-fledged parser though (like when you want to extract certain object when scraping).

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