[Work] that moment when '\\\\\\\\+|\\\\\\\\-' is what you need to input to indicate '+|-'

Being a programmer is weird.

...okay I know just enough css to know that backslashes can indicate "this is not code" but what do +| do that would fuck with a code line?

(I literally only know enough css to fix visual errors on plurk and tumblr)

Okay. this is part of a regular expression, which is a way to filter and match strings. the + ands - are reserved characters, to in the regex string, you'd typically put in \+|\- as the \ is the escape character

the \ character is a reserved character justr about everywere else, so typcially you indicate the \ with \\.

.... and from there it's turtles all the way down.

...oh jesus

that seems so kludgy

Yup