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chrismorgan on Dec 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Regex Golf

Practise, maybe. Learning, probably not so much. Certainly fun, though, if you can cope with them!

zedadex on Dec 21, 2013 [–]

Learning, kinda. I've often been motivated to learn something after being given a problem that can only be solved (or be solved much more easily) using it. Every other Excel trick I know is a result of that.

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