If you fancy making an online crossword, I once made a nice traditional crossword layout using CSS Grid that makes a decent basis - https://codepen.io/onion2k/full/KRQeqm
RegEx Crossword
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Re: RegEx Crossword
#32So many of these start or end with an `x*`, `(x|y)`, `[xy]` or `[^xy]` that I only see two characters I can fill in before I need to start looking at multiple constraints for the same cell and either doing combinatorics or guess-and-check. This might be fine for hard mode, but as someone who considers themselves a regexpert it's not very approachable as a first puzzle IMO. A more gradual introduction to the format wo…
Agreed. Some of them can be simplified quite a bit, which leads to a lot of clutter. For instance,
(XHH|[^XH])*
.*
Re: RegEx Crossword
#33Right away the red and green hints are wrong. Either that or this puzzle used RegEx rules that contradict those I am familiar with. Either way, they lost my attention.
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#34Why doesnt the empty string satisfy `(DI|NS|TH|OM)*`?
Empty string does satisfy that. This puzzle gets it wrong.
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#35So many of these start or end with an `x*`, `(x|y)`, `[xy]` or `[^xy]` that I only see two characters I can fill in before I need to start looking at multiple constraints for the same cell and either doing combinatorics or guess-and-check. This might be fine for hard mode, but as someone who considers themselves a regexpert it's not very approachable as a first puzzle IMO. A more gradual introduction to the format wo…
Agreed. Some of them can be simplified quite a bit, which leads to a lot of clutter. For instance, (XHH|[^XH])* is equivalent to just .* EDIT: It looks like I read the regex wrong. I guess I need to do the puzzle after all!
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#36NY Times Mon < Tue < Wed < Thu < Fri < Sat < Sun < British Cryptic < RegEx
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#37I thought I could handle RegEx, but this has given me a legitimate inferiority complex.
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#39So many of these start or end with an `x*`, `(x|y)`, `[xy]` or `[^xy]` that I only see two characters I can fill in before I need to start looking at multiple constraints for the same cell and either doing combinatorics or guess-and-check. This might be fine for hard mode, but as someone who considers themselves a regexpert it's not very approachable as a first puzzle IMO. A more gradual introduction to the format wo…
Agreed. Some of them can be simplified quite a bit, which leads to a lot of clutter. For instance, (XHH|[^XH])* is equivalent to just .* EDIT: It looks like I read the regex wrong. I guess I need to do the puzzle after all!
No, (X|H|H|[^XH])*` or ([XHH]|[^XH])* would be equivalent to .*, but (XHH|[^XH])* requires that XHH appear consecutively in that order whenever they appear at all.
Re: RegEx Crossword
#40So many of these start or end with an `x*`, `(x|y)`, `[xy]` or `[^xy]` that I only see two characters I can fill in before I need to start looking at multiple constraints for the same cell and either doing combinatorics or guess-and-check. This might be fine for hard mode, but as someone who considers themselves a regexpert it's not very approachable as a first puzzle IMO. A more gradual introduction to the format wo…
Agreed. Some of them can be simplified quite a bit, which leads to a lot of clutter. For instance, (XHH|[^XH])* is equivalent to just .* EDIT: It looks like I read the regex wrong. I guess I need to do the puzzle after all!
Those are not equivalent, I think you're thinking of [XHH] instead of XHH.