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Patryk27today at 6:18 AM1 replyview on HN

Regular expressions are not Turing-complete.


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0xffanytoday at 6:45 AM

True in the CS Theory space, but most modern regex engines implement a few niceties which make their "regex" turing complete. https://blog.poisson.chat/posts/2024-06-18-turing-regex.html