Rubular - a Ruby regular expression editor • Hacker News Board

Falling3 wrote: post #4

mrchess wrote: post #3

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How does one write regular expressions for profit? Do you mean using regex's to filter datasets or do you actually sell regex's?

He/she is probably referring to paid work that involves regular expressions.

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Re: Rubular - a Ruby regular expression editor

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Post by cynwoody » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 7:11 PM UTC

That's very nice.

For Python users, there is: http://www.regexplanet.com/advanced/python/index.html

Example: http://fiddle.re/22e5

Re: Rubular - a Ruby regular expression editor

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Post by logical42 » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 7:12 PM UTC

i didn't realize that it was possible to name a capturing group. this is an awesome example.

Re: Rubular - a Ruby regular expression editor

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Post by boneheadmed » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 7:20 PM UTC

Didn't know about this. Love it! Thanks for sharing.

Re: Rubular - a Ruby regular expression editor

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Post by aaronblohowiak » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 7:21 PM UTC

logical42 wrote: post #16

i didn't realize that it was possible to name a capturing group. this is an awesome example.

ruby > 1.9

Re: Rubular - a Ruby regular expression editor

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Post by rross0227 » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 7:39 PM UTC

And this is why hacker news is terrible.

Re: Rubular - a Ruby regular expression editor

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Post by danso » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 8:15 PM UTC

I also like using http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/

Which I think is Flash/Flash Air...

Being able to permalink (which Rubular also does) to examples is a killer feature..I keep trying to convince non-programmers who work with data that they should at least learn regexes to make their life easier