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		sauravs on Nov 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can lea... agree...regular expression is like magic to me

maccard on Nov 20, 2019 [–]

I spent an hour learning the basics - wildcards, whitespace, escape symbols and Character ranges are enough for them to be useful.

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