#1313: Regex Golf explain

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Regex golf:

[Megan is sitting at a laptop. Cueball is standing behind her.]

Megan: You try to match one group but not the other.

Megan: /m | [tn]|b/ matches Star Wars subtitles but not Star Trek.

Cueball: Cool.

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Meta-regex golf:

[A close-up of Megan at her laptop.]

Megan: So I wrote a program that plays regex golf with arbitrary lists…

Cueball (offscreen): Uh oh…

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Meta-meta-regex golf:

[Megan typing at her laptop.]

Megan: …But I lost my code, so I’m grepping for files that look like regex golf solvers.

[Cueball facepalming.]

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…And beyond:

[Another closeup of Megan at her laptop.]

Megan: Really, this is all /(meta-)*regex golf/.

Cueball: Now you have infinite problems.

Megan: No, I had those already.