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what debugging regex feels like

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    If they are Perl regexes, like all regexes are supposed to be, you can have non-semantic whitespace and comments.

    But if you are using some system that enforces something different, you are out of luck.

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      Not necessarily. For just debugging purposes, you can still break them up to help understand them. Even ignoring that, there are options in languages that don’t implement /x.

      https://wumpus-cave.net/post/2022/06/2022-06-06-how-to-write-regexes-that-are-almost-readable/index.html

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