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

#32

There are two things I need when it comes to regex: 1. The ability to escape a string when searching using vi: http://www.0x11.net/regex/escaper.py 2. Lots of regex examples with a description of how they work.

Sounds like you have your work cut out for you.

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

#34
post #21

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You cant insert a tab character (yet). Ill fix that. Hmm, you could perhaps minimize the fields you dont need while writing it? Use the [-] buttons

I could minimize some of the fields, but the larger point I should have made is that when I was typing the regex the first time, I was looking at the cheat sheet. The workflow I found myself fall into was: 1. Enter the test string. 2. Look at the cheat sheet and type into the regex field. 3. Look at the matches and test field to see if it was correct. 4. If incorrect, look at the explanation. 5. Go back to (2) So for…

You're right, I'll look into a smart solution for this. Thanks for pointing it out! I have a very large monitor, I rarely run into problems like these.

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

#36
post #20

I would like to see regex mapped in url so I have the option to send a regex to someone in this website. It doesn't have to be server side URL mapping. Just push the regex to location hash and let JavaScript parse it back.

You can use permalinks (press the button), which is the preferred way of sharing expressions. Otherwise the following works too: http://www.regex101.com/?regex=...&options=...&text=...&sub=....

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

#37

Regular Expressions are perhaps my weakest point with regards to programming. I realize that they are just little sub-dialects that I need to learn the rules of but I've never had a project which required me to take the time to write extensive regular expressions. On the rare occasion that I do need to use a regular expression I find tools like this to be invaluable. This tool looks particularly nice. Community Forum…

The version I have implemented, PCRE, is fairly common. It's good starting ground. Goal is to add more flavor-specific support, but thats in the future.

Thanks for the kind words!

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

#40
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.
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