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		axiosgunnar on Sept 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In search of the perfect URL validation regex (201... > ⌘\.ws I guess this is the regex equivalent of overfitting :)

saghm on Sept 25, 2021 | [–]

Yeah, not to mention "code.google.com" being right in there!

maciejgryka on Sept 25, 2021 | [–]

Yeah, grex (the library powering this) is really cool, but doesn’t generalize very well. I’m sure there are ways to improve it, but it’s not a trivial thing to do.

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