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Re: Just released a major update for my site. What do you guys think?

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Post by Lindrian » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 1:00 AM UTC

omegote wrote: post #30

It would be great to know a little bit about the internals of the "explanation engine".

The colorizer does most of the grunt work, it tokenizes the regex and colors it properly. The explainer then basically just loops over those tokens and explain them. It's a bit hacked together as it works right now though; but it seems to do the trick. The explainer does some additional error-checking which the colorizer doesn't have enough resources to do as well. Anything in particular you want to know?

Re: Just released a major update for my site. What do you guys think?

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Post by Lindrian » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 1:02 AM UTC

jacobgreenleaf wrote: post #26

There is an inconsistency in naming: you call it "flags" at the top but "options" at the bottom. I think you should also say "Regular expression quick reference" rather than "Regex quick reference" for the same consistency since you use "regular expressions" everywhere else.

Adjusted, thank you!

Re: Just released a major update for my site. What do you guys think?

#43

Post by Lindrian » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 1:03 AM UTC

zamalek wrote: post #29

Now you have 102 problems :). Good work, looks like something I would actually use.

Haha, hopefully my website will help you keep regex-related problems to a minimum :).

Re: Just released a major update for my site. What do you guys think?

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Post by lelf » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 1:27 AM UTC

No info for /u. And why it's not default?

Re: Just released a major update for my site. What do you guys think?

#45

Post by coin » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 3:15 AM UTC

Doesn't fit horizontally on an iPad in portrait orientation.

Re: Just released a major update for my site. What do you guys think?

#46

Post by sejje » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 3:48 AM UTC

coin wrote: post #45

Doesn't fit horizontally on an iPad in portrait orientation.

Not sure why you're being downvoted, I think your comment is relevant when OP is asking for feedback.

You're not just nitpicking some blog template or something.

Re: Just released a major update for my site. What do you guys think?

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Post by fernly » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 4:40 AM UTC

Would be nice to have at least a link to a detailed spec of the supported RE syntax, for a not good example, http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html

Re: Just released a major update for my site. What do you guys think?

#48

Post by sidcool » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 6:40 AM UTC

I liked the 'Your Regular Expression Explained' section.

Re: Just released a major update for my site. What do you guys think?

#49

Post by chr1 » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 8:04 AM UTC

Lindrian wrote: post #40

chr1 wrote: post #25

Pretty nice, though would be better to use CodeMirror or Ace instead of textareas.

I have been looking into this, but I know too little about them to make my current scripts work along side one of them. If you can help me out that would be greatly appreciated.

It's quite easy actually, so i can help, is your code on github?

Re: Just released a major update for my site. What do you guys think?

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Post by Lindrian » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 9:57 AM UTC

lelf wrote: post #44

No info for /u. And why it's not default?

Do you mean its not explained correctly or its not in the quickref? Its not enabled by default because it changes the behavior of many things, for example what \d and \w match. The user has to decide for himself what flags to use.