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Re:Stop writing Regular Expressions – Express them with Verb... by cleaver on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @12:23AM (#6164791)
I'm always a bit wary of posts that tell me to "Stop doing X". I'm also pretty comfortable with regular expressions. They take you outside of the procedural comfort zone, but are a valuable tool that will pay off to learn.

Still, it's worth a shot trying to create a tool like this. What I don't get is how they would handle subexpressions.

Re:Stop writing Regular Expressions – Express them with Verb... by stphnclysmth on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @12:05PM (#6167350)
Looking at the wiki, I don't think it does handle them. I reckon that if jehna when to the trouble of making this, he knows of at least one use case, even if it's his own. I appreciate that he's shared his work. That said, from my own experience, by the time a regular expression becomes difficult for me to parse, there are subexpressions, negative lookbehinds, and other less comprehensible regex features that this library doesn't seem to support.
Re:Stop writing Regular Expressions – Express them with Verb... by eru on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @12:52AM (#6164863)
With parentheses?