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Stop That

(dramatic chord)

Nobody flinches. Regex has been demystified. It’s pattern matching on strings — dense syntax, simple concept. Character classes for what to match, quantifiers for how many, groups for what to capture, flags for how to search.

“Was that really worth a dramatic chord?”

“No.”

(dramatic chord)

“I said stop that.”