11–20 of 36 posts
Google does not implement regex search support because they said somewhere that the data storage needed for the index would be huge. And since regex search is used only by a small subset of users, it is not worth the effort.
It is a way of taking a regular expression and an input and then applying that regular expression to that input. In this particular example it takes the regular expression:
/(?x: (\w+) \s (\w+) )/
And applies it to:
"hacker news"
And then spits out the result:
"hacker | news"
Representing the two captured results.
This is also useful.
Every comment here at time of writing is from people thinking that this is a way of searching the web using regular expressions. It is not. It is a way of taking a regular expression and an input and then applying that regular expression to that input. In this particular example it takes the regular expression: /(?x: (\w+) \s (\w+) )/ And applies it to: "hacker news" And then spits out the result: "hacker | news" Rep…
Every comment here at time of writing is from people thinking that this is a way of searching the web using regular expressions. It is not. It is a way of taking a regular expression and an input and then applying that regular expression to that input. In this particular example it takes the regular expression: /(?x: (\w+) \s (\w+) )/ And applies it to: "hacker news" And then spits out the result: "hacker | news" Rep…
What is the use for this?
Every comment here at time of writing is from people thinking that this is a way of searching the web using regular expressions. It is not. It is a way of taking a regular expression and an input and then applying that regular expression to that input. In this particular example it takes the regular expression: /(?x: (\w+) \s (\w+) )/ And applies it to: "hacker news" And then spits out the result: "hacker | news" Rep…
Doesn't appear to work for me .. is this supposed to be doing a regex search or just solving; doesn't seem to solve generally?
Doesn't appear to work for me .. is this supposed to be doing a regex search or just solving; doesn't seem to solve generally?
It does; try: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=regex+%2Fhack%2F+hacker+news https://duckduckgo.com/?q=regex+%2F%28hack%29%2F+hacker+news
[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=regex+%2F%28%5Cw%2B%29+%5Cs+%28%5C...
Every comment here at time of writing is from people thinking that this is a way of searching the web using regular expressions. It is not. It is a way of taking a regular expression and an input and then applying that regular expression to that input. In this particular example it takes the regular expression: /(?x: (\w+) \s (\w+) )/ And applies it to: "hacker news" And then spits out the result: "hacker | news" Rep…
Thank you. Can you explain what "?x:" does? Searching for regular expressions syntax (another thing this doesn't do) is quite tricky.
In this case, 'x' means "Extend your pattern's legibility by permitting whitespace and comments"