Re:Common Regular Expressions Made Simple
by yconst on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @10:47AM
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Very good point! It's not the reasoning and logic behind regex that would turn a beginner away from it, its the syntax that is being used that often results into expressions turning into impenetrable goo!
(thanks for the verbal expressions link btw, seems really promising)
That project shows there are two tracks by which to tackle the problem that regex syntax is incoherent gobbledygook. The first is creating a regex version of pho with 5000 functions and mix and match names piece by piece. The second is to rename regex symbols to something that is easier for humans to parse.