[Cialug] some truth to that

[jim kraai]

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On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Andrew Denner <linux-list at upeke.com> wrote:

> 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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