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kybernetyk 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: “This is not the computer for you”

BSD grep is the pure grep version though. Perl regex is unnecessary bloat.

Paracompact 4 months ago [–]

Is it unnecessary bloat to match for digits X in patterns $X, say among a bunch of receipts? Eye of the beholder and all, but I'm inclined to think no.

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