A Helpful OGRE (regular expressions)
If you're having trouble understanding specifically what a regex is doing, and you need it explained, just ask the OGRE.
OGRE is the Online Gateway to Regex Explanation, and is just an online portal to the YAPE::Regex::Explain module (available on CPAN, and at my web site).
It's a very helpful tool. I hope it comes in handy here.
Mark Hensler posted this at 00:00 — 21st February 2001.
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very nice!!
..now, can you get one to go the other way?
japhy posted this at 00:46 — 21st February 2001.
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If you mean something that can turn:
"(1 to 3 digits, a period) 3 times, 1 to 3 digits"
to:
/(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}/
Then that is currently in the works. Something LIKE it, at least. I'm not sure what "grammar" to accept.
Mark Hensler posted this at 06:14 — 21st February 2001.
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wow!
now that's something I think a lot of people would use to learn REGEX
Maverick posted this at 16:33 — 21st February 2001.
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Indeed! For those of us that consider regular expressions a cross between hieroglyphics, ancient Sanskrit and just plain voodoo, it would be nice to have an English to regex conversion utility available. That would be an extremely useful tool.
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