Kate DamesWhy they call it "Regular" expressions still manage to confuse me as there's really nothing regular about it... Happy end of January 2023! Jeepers! Already?!
T. L. Ford@funficient I wrote this ages ago: https://www.cattail.nu/school_web/cmis325/regexp.html - It's a joint for sure... maybe. :P
@cattailnu "Well, here's something designed with the help of a good-sized marijuana joint." 😂
Why hasn't anyone translated it into something readable to include as a library or something yet? Or has someone?
@funficient It's too powerful to change around, honestly. An equivalent would be too complex to use and clunky. However... there are some great parsers: https://www.regextester.com and https://regexper.com are my favorites. I wrote a simple one for "normal" people that creates regex to match words for my Obsidian plugin: https://www.cattail.nu/obsidian/filePluginRegexHelper.html - I figured people trying to do something harder would ask me.
@cattailnu Handy indeed! Thanks!