[Cialug] some truth to that

[Andrew Denner]

It can also be abused in horrible ways. as in one of the best stackoverflow
questions ever "RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained
tags<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454>"
which is also the best use of extended characters and sarcasm in an answer.




On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:20 PM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:

> sometimes i need to generate test data that will later need to match a
> regexp
>
> here are a couple of online tools that take a regexp and generate matching
> strings
>
> https://fent.github.io/randexp.js/
> http://uttool.com/text/regexstr/default.aspx
>
> of course, all of these things will have lots of limitations considering
> the nature of the task
>
> there are other libs to do this in various languages, but they're hard to
> find because of the extreme nicheyness
>
> http://regldg.com/
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Regexp-Genex/lib/Regexp/Genex.pm
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regex-genex-0.2.1 (related to the perl
> pkg?)
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:30 AM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > You fail to grasp the ways of the leaning toothpicks, grasshopper.
> >
> > I don't like regex, would rather use longer but more readable methods.
> >
> > -dc
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:24 AM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > you're right on the money
> > >
> > > some regex engines even allow in-line comments
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:07 AM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > > http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/02/page/4/
> > > >
> > > > Writing regular expressions isn't _that_ hard, especially if you
> build
> > > > them up piece by piece.  Also, a solid understanding of their
> > > > limitations is essential.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Jeff Ollie
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