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Re: RegExr 2.0

#2
> Uh-oh, it looks like your browser is not supported.

> RegExr only supports modern desktop browsers.

I'm using Firefox 30 on Ubuntu. I think it's plenty modern :)

Re: RegExr 2.0

#3
post #2

> Uh-oh, it looks like your browser is not supported. > RegExr only supports modern desktop browsers. I'm using Firefox 30 on Ubuntu. I think it's plenty modern :)

No problem here with Fedora 20 and Firefox 31.0a1 (2014-04-04)

Re: RegExr 2.0

#5
post #2

> Uh-oh, it looks like your browser is not supported. > RegExr only supports modern desktop browsers. I'm using Firefox 30 on Ubuntu. I think it's plenty modern :)

I get the same message with chrome 34 on android 4.4.2

Re: RegExr 2.0

#7
I'm guessing the following is either near-impossible or pure-impossible, but:

Is there a tool that allows you to highlight portions of a string and generate a corresponding regex? (i.e. the inverse of RegExr)

Re: RegExr 2.0

#8
post #7

I'm guessing the following is either near-impossible or pure-impossible, but: Is there a tool that allows you to highlight portions of a string and generate a corresponding regex? (i.e. the inverse of RegExr)

Regexp::Assemble kind of gets you there, you can feed it strings and it'll spit out a regex.

Re: RegExr 2.0

#9
People just cannot do unicode even remotely properly. Just cannot.

𝄞 is one char, not two. привет is matched by \w+.

PS there's some advanced stuff but where is basic [[:posix:]] char classes?

Re: RegExr 2.0

#10
post #7

I'm guessing the following is either near-impossible or pure-impossible, but: Is there a tool that allows you to highlight portions of a string and generate a corresponding regex? (i.e. the inverse of RegExr)

Probably not what you're looking for, but check out http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/xkcd1313....
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