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By Alaina Kafkes How a linguistic breakthrough ended up in code \_Image Credit: \[xkcd\](https://xkcd.com/" rel="noopener" target="blank" title=") Regular expressions inspire fear in new and experienced programmers alike. When I first saw a regular exp...

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