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Nathan F.
Nathan F.
30,773 Points
Posted by Nathan F.
Nathan F.
30,773 Points

Readable Regular Expressions

Stumbled upon this while browsing Coderbits today. In essence, it's a Javascript project that aims to turn regular expressions into human-readable language, like so:

var tester = VerEx()
        .startOfLine()
        .then( "http" )
        .maybe( "s" )
        .then( "://" )
        .maybe( "www." )
        .anythingBut( " " )
        .endOfLine();

How's that for clarity? Seeing as how regular expressions give me regular headaches, I'm looking forward to seeing ports of this project to other languages.

2 Answers

Aaron Daub
PLUS
Aaron Daub
Courses Plus Student 96 Points
Aaron Daub
Aaron Daub
Courses Plus Student 96 Points

A more general combinatory parser library for Objc https://github.com/brotchie/Parcoa

Scott Magdalein
Scott Magdalein
2,406 Points
Scott Magdalein
Scott Magdalein
2,406 Points

That's cool!