[Cialug] some truth to that

[Kenneth Younger]

I thought this javascript library was pretty cool for helping the
readability of regexes.

https://rionscode.wordpress.com/tag/writing-human-readable-regular-expressions/


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On 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.
> >
>
> I was hoping somebody would reference that. By the way, that "the pony he
> comes" bit is a great way to test your application's Unicode support. It's
> way more than just extended characters. Twitter counts those 17 characters
> as 104.
>
> Back on topic, I read the book "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Friedl
> and it greatly changed my outlook on Regex. I strongly suggest it. You can
> get the older 2nd edition quite cheap and it's still very useful, since
> regex hasn't changed a lot. (but the newer version does have some useful
> examples with more modern libraries) If you're not much of a reader, I
> suggest picking up the audio book version.
>
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