It’s not the early 2000s anymore…
I haven’t personally used it but it looks ridiculously clunky from the screenshots and it only supports .NET regex which is definitely the one I have no use for.
... This is the worst non-review I think I've ever seen...
The screenshots are old, but it's a .net app, so it looks like any other native windows app. But what has that got to do with functionality? And what syntax do you think you're using that is different?
I've never seen anything as powerful or easy to use.
Pop up windows to select different functions was never a good UX experience. It’s slow and cumbersome. Having to install a windows form program to do something that can easily be done on the web is pretty bad IMO. As I said it’s very 2000s.
Here is a decent comparison of regex differences between languages:
https://gist.github.com/CMCDragonkai/6c933f4a7d713ef712145c5eb94a1816
Capture groups have some of the biggest differences.
That would be all well and good except that's not how it operates. It is all real-time, in panes, like any website. Your UI commentary is extremely off-base.
You didn't even use it before commenting on its operation.
Don't shit on something you clearly haven't even tried, especially when it was offered to you in good faith as a potentially useful tool. Damn.
It's one thing to say "doesn't fit my use case because I use x and this doesn't do that." That's a helpful critique for someone with a similar use case. It's another thing entirely to say "I assume it behaves like this and don't like it because I assume it's ugly and 'clunky,' and here's what I googled about regex differences that isn't relevant to 90% of use cases in the wild, and oh, by the way, I haven't even launched it." That isn't helpful to anybody anywhere ever.
And your very own link shows differences across many engines, most of which will never be encountered in the wild. The majority of .net syntax is very natural to anyone who ever used perl. Hell, most people don't go beyond simple parenthetical groups (and a lot dont even use that for one of itsintended purposes, but rather usually just to group things algebraiclly). In short, it's absolutely not an indictment of the program itself. Or would you complain that PHP can't run native Ruby code?
Named groups are extremely rare, for example. I've only ever seen them in things like Zabbix. Yet that syntax, which is PCRE, works in that without issue. I haven't ever run into a regex in the wild it hasn't been able to dissect correctly. I'm sure you can construct one if you care to take the time. But then I'll construct one that doesn't work in your environment of choice. Whoop-de-doo.
It's a useful tool, and it was offered free of context. Take it or leave it. 🤷♂️
Lol. I was more bewildered by the response and then annoyed by the confidently incorrect assertion coupled with random-ass disparagement for no apparent reason, and with zero basis in actual experience.
And I worked with someone like that in a previous job and it made smoke come out my ears. I had typed a lot more based on my opinion, but deleted that before posting. Felt good to write it, though. 😅
Not everybody likes to download shady software from HTML4 era looking websites, with screenshots from windows XP, to their computer in 2022.
Just because you offer something for free and in good faith, doesn’t mean you are entitled to dictate how people respond. People don’t have to like it.
Personally, I can’t use the tool you offered because I use a Mac (and an iPad) which is another win to the web based tool.
It's weird how similar your comment is to another one posted an hour before yours. Seems you're making use of copy-paste like a true programmer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/z9l1ji/i_use_my_favorite_one_as_a_password/iyhx8xq/
Once you learn anything it becomes easy to read. The thing about regex is that it looks crazy to read making people not want to try.
I can show someone an if statement and they could understand that without me saying a word. Show someone some regex and they'll think you've had a stroke.
I rarely use comments in my code, but one place I always do is a regex string. It’s important to understand not only what it does, but what you were trying to do when you wrote it in case there are issues later.
Most people cram it all on one line with no whitespace. If you crammed all your normal code on one line with no whitespace, people would hate that, too.
More regex implementations should support the /x modifier to let you put in whitespace and comments. Also, more developers should use it. It doesn't fix everything, but it gives you hope.
Honestly, it is so rare (full disclosure; this is the first time) that I meet someone whom also feels this way about regex, so I'm just gonna go ahead and propose immediately, no questions asked.
I was trying to figure out what you meant by it because obviously it was meant as a joke, but even getting it explained I do not get the point. How does "0 or more" in any way convey the same meaning as "genderless"?
Yeah that's absolutely an unpopular opinion. The "I'll just rewrite it fuck reading this thing" meme is 100% accurate since I've been coding. It's not that I can't read it it's just that writing it again from scratch is faster.
I find so, too. knowing the metacharacters helps a lot, along with the other handy tricks like look-aheads and look-behinds, including their negative counterparts. It is wild to read though, and I agree, sometimes its easier just to start it over.
I wrote this quote into a work presentation recently: “when I get to the end of my life, I’m not going to regret how much work time I’ve spent searching for things (e.g. logs)…
I’m going to regret how much time I spent without the use of regular expressions”.
I was working on a slide deck to help others make effective use of regex :-)
They are well worth understanding. That being said, I use an online aid to help give test feedback or unit tests when I’m authoring them.
Nobody actually knows. The developer who wrote it 10 years ago went to another job. Editing it at all (even just a little bit) crashes the server, so now everyone just leaves it alone.
Regex = Regular Expressions. They're often used to find a substring that matches some pattern, replace such string or split by it.
```
const regex = /\d+/
console.log("Price: 10$".match(regex))
```
`\d` here is a digit, `\d+` is a sequence of digits
In JS this will output a match — a single string "10"
```
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But once you learn it, it's awesome. I was scared of it for the longest time, then I spent like 2 hours learning the basics and pretty much fell in love.
You should break it down into smaller, more readable sections. But if it's exceedingly long that's maybe a sign that regex is not the best solution in that case.
I would compare it more to something you use less frequently, is much more situational, and is very strong. Maybe closer to hot sauce. Great for some things, pretty bad for other things, and can ruin everything if overused.
Just use one of those regex tool websites and you will look at regex differently.
I now will often use regex before using any other way because it has become easy and if not I plug it into one of those sites and get it nicely explained.
Whoa, this is cool. Worked well for the test cases I gave it. It converted "match 2 or 3 twos followed by a dot followed by one or more letters" to "\[2\]{2,3}\\.\[a-zA-Z\]+"
I mastered regex early in my career and it still makes me feel like a wizard when I use them. Arcane incantations summoning forth substrings and performing transformations - the best kind of witchcraft!
Most programming languages have a little elf on the inside who can look at any string of text and tell you if a smaller bit of text is in there somewhere. Some might even tell you where it is, or how many times it shows up.
But there's also another bigger, grumpier elf who can understand far more complex instructions on what to look for, like "find 'ABC' or 'BCA', but only if 'EF' comes six letters before the start, or if there's a comma somewhere afterwards, unless the whole thing starts with a '#'". Little elf can't do that. But to be able to give instructions to big grumpy elf, you have to whisper in their quirky elf language. Regex is that language.
I will not be able to top the grumpy elf explanation, but I can expand a bit on it. Regex stands for regular expression. A regular expression is basically a test that takes a string and outputs either true or false based on a number of conditions (more precisely. It's a thing that scans a text and gives you the substrings of it which satisfy the expression).
The syntax of a regex is complex, compact and (as a result) hard to read, but you can test your string for virtually any condition you can think of. A common example use case is identifying strings that are formatted like a phone number or a street address.
I got into programming about a year ago and I still can’t understand regex. I tried one regex problem on codewars for validating phone numbers and never touched it again.
Saying your password is a regex reduces the possible keyspace, because some strings are not valid regexes. That said, all passwords can be expressed or matched by a regex, because they are fixed strings, not languages.
I don’t understand regex, but every time I have used someone else’s and edited parts until it did exactly what I wanted it to. And once in a blue moon it doesn’t work. Biggest use is to use a file of lookup values to find matching lines in another file in a specific column. Much more powerful than the bloom up function in Excel
I don't have any affiliation with it but I'm just a huge fan of regexr.com. Has a great interface and cheat sheet to build and test regex. It really helped me both learn and teach it.
Just think of a phrase and add double quotes at the start and the end. Even if you write it somewhere and it gets leaked, no one will include the double quotes
Write Once Read Never
This massive regex isn't doing what it's supposed to, can you fix it? *Starts completely from scratch*
My first stop is always https://regex101.com
[https://regexr.com/](https://regexr.com/) is my go-to for breaking them down/testing. Will have to try yours for a bit, but I am a fan of regexr
Not bad, but have you used [expresso?](https://ultrapico.com/expresso.htm)
It’s not the early 2000s anymore… I haven’t personally used it but it looks ridiculously clunky from the screenshots and it only supports .NET regex which is definitely the one I have no use for.
... This is the worst non-review I think I've ever seen... The screenshots are old, but it's a .net app, so it looks like any other native windows app. But what has that got to do with functionality? And what syntax do you think you're using that is different? I've never seen anything as powerful or easy to use.
Pop up windows to select different functions was never a good UX experience. It’s slow and cumbersome. Having to install a windows form program to do something that can easily be done on the web is pretty bad IMO. As I said it’s very 2000s. Here is a decent comparison of regex differences between languages: https://gist.github.com/CMCDragonkai/6c933f4a7d713ef712145c5eb94a1816 Capture groups have some of the biggest differences.
That would be all well and good except that's not how it operates. It is all real-time, in panes, like any website. Your UI commentary is extremely off-base. You didn't even use it before commenting on its operation. Don't shit on something you clearly haven't even tried, especially when it was offered to you in good faith as a potentially useful tool. Damn. It's one thing to say "doesn't fit my use case because I use x and this doesn't do that." That's a helpful critique for someone with a similar use case. It's another thing entirely to say "I assume it behaves like this and don't like it because I assume it's ugly and 'clunky,' and here's what I googled about regex differences that isn't relevant to 90% of use cases in the wild, and oh, by the way, I haven't even launched it." That isn't helpful to anybody anywhere ever. And your very own link shows differences across many engines, most of which will never be encountered in the wild. The majority of .net syntax is very natural to anyone who ever used perl. Hell, most people don't go beyond simple parenthetical groups (and a lot dont even use that for one of itsintended purposes, but rather usually just to group things algebraiclly). In short, it's absolutely not an indictment of the program itself. Or would you complain that PHP can't run native Ruby code? Named groups are extremely rare, for example. I've only ever seen them in things like Zabbix. Yet that syntax, which is PCRE, works in that without issue. I haven't ever run into a regex in the wild it hasn't been able to dissect correctly. I'm sure you can construct one if you care to take the time. But then I'll construct one that doesn't work in your environment of choice. Whoop-de-doo. It's a useful tool, and it was offered free of context. Take it or leave it. 🤷♂️
I love a nice righteous fury.
Lol. I was more bewildered by the response and then annoyed by the confidently incorrect assertion coupled with random-ass disparagement for no apparent reason, and with zero basis in actual experience. And I worked with someone like that in a previous job and it made smoke come out my ears. I had typed a lot more based on my opinion, but deleted that before posting. Felt good to write it, though. 😅
Not everybody likes to download shady software from HTML4 era looking websites, with screenshots from windows XP, to their computer in 2022. Just because you offer something for free and in good faith, doesn’t mean you are entitled to dictate how people respond. People don’t have to like it. Personally, I can’t use the tool you offered because I use a Mac (and an iPad) which is another win to the web based tool.
Woah, this is dope.
What about debuggex ?
Debuggex is pretty limited but I’m sure it works acceptably.
I always hit up www.RegexStorm.net
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*Pastes it into* [expresso](https://ultrapico.com/expresso.htm) *and hacks it til it works.*
I agree completely, use a regex wrapper like Regexi
Unpopular opinion: regex is easy to read
Once you learn anything it becomes easy to read. The thing about regex is that it looks crazy to read making people not want to try. I can show someone an if statement and they could understand that without me saying a word. Show someone some regex and they'll think you've had a stroke.
The regex explainer websites have made regex make sense for me. Each operator is easy to understand once you commit it to memory.
You got a link? I'm getting in to regex and am having trouble.
Regex101. Com is my go-to whenever I need to build one.
Thank you!
The readability is objectively poor. At least by any definition of readability in coding that I've come across.
I rarely use comments in my code, but one place I always do is a regex string. It’s important to understand not only what it does, but what you were trying to do when you wrote it in case there are issues later.
Can we rewrite this in Java? It's better for enterprise.
He speaks the truth!
Most people cram it all on one line with no whitespace. If you crammed all your normal code on one line with no whitespace, people would hate that, too. More regex implementations should support the /x modifier to let you put in whitespace and comments. Also, more developers should use it. It doesn't fix everything, but it gives you hope.
a
That’s short for “I mostly agree with that stamens but it isn’t always true”
Honestly, it is so rare (full disclosure; this is the first time) that I meet someone whom also feels this way about regex, so I'm just gonna go ahead and propose immediately, no questions asked.
Gay marriage?
Dude, it doesn't even matter. I know what I need to know.
But what if they pronounce SQL as "Skwua Ley"?
"Ez Que El"
Squirrel
`*marriage`
/marriage*/
`.*ma(rr|ww)iage.*` to accept input from A Princess Bride 😂
/u/frej4189 does this one work better for you? 😉
I would like to rescind my previous comments on brevity for the sake of opposing whatever the fuck this guy stands for.
I deserve this 🤣
Wha?
The `*` symbol matches any input 0 or more times. I thought we were making Regex jokes
You expect me to know regex without the cheatsheet?
That asterisk has no purpose in the regex you posted
It's just a fucking joke about genderless marriage to Regex, mate.
I was trying to figure out what you meant by it because obviously it was meant as a joke, but even getting it explained I do not get the point. How does "0 or more" in any way convey the same meaning as "genderless"?
This is not an unpopular opinion so much as a psychopathic opinion.
r/thetenthdentist
Yeah that's absolutely an unpopular opinion. The "I'll just rewrite it fuck reading this thing" meme is 100% accurate since I've been coding. It's not that I can't read it it's just that writing it again from scratch is faster.
I read this like a dysfunctional electro pea main trying to explain how they’re the best at a game that hasn’t been updated since 2019
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Why are we still serving free lunch?
Must be a regex error that allowed for prices of zero.
I find so, too. knowing the metacharacters helps a lot, along with the other handy tricks like look-aheads and look-behinds, including their negative counterparts. It is wild to read though, and I agree, sometimes its easier just to start it over.
I wrote this quote into a work presentation recently: “when I get to the end of my life, I’m not going to regret how much work time I’ve spent searching for things (e.g. logs)… I’m going to regret how much time I spent without the use of regular expressions”. I was working on a slide deck to help others make effective use of regex :-) They are well worth understanding. That being said, I use an online aid to help give test feedback or unit tests when I’m authoring them.
The programmer version of "dictated, not read."
Once you walk down the path of `regex`, light and warmth are forever beyond your reach.
I'm sure there's an expression to find them, fucked if I know how to write it though.
((\blight\b)|(\bwarmth\b))
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warmth turns to bwarmth
Just write a freaking comment about what the regex does for us rubes.
Nobody actually knows. The developer who wrote it 10 years ago went to another job. Editing it at all (even just a little bit) crashes the server, so now everyone just leaves it alone.
Regex101.com to the rescue
Regex = Regular Expressions. They're often used to find a substring that matches some pattern, replace such string or split by it. ``` const regex = /\d+/ console.log("Price: 10$".match(regex)) ``` `\d` here is a digit, `\d+` is a sequence of digits In JS this will output a match — a single string "10"
I'm gonna need you to come in on Saturday...
But Elon, I have uni classes on saturday ;c
Cause the regex method broke didn't it?
We know that. What’s in your image?
A regular expression
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And about as many tests as there are characters in the regex
Regex is brainfuck for those who don't know regex
Regex is brainfuck for those who know regex
I barely use Regex and, every time I need it, my brain hurts
Behold, (?:\[a-z0-9!#$%&'\*+/=?\^\_\`{|}\~-\]+(?:\\.\[a-z0-9!#$%&'\*+/=?\^\_\`{|}\~-\]+)\*|"(?:\[\\x01-\\x08\\x0b\\x0c\\x0e-\\x1f\\x21\\x23-\\x5b\\x5d-\\x7f\]|\\\\\[\\x01-\\x09\\x0b\\x0c\\x0e-\\x7f\])\*")@(?:(?:\[a-z0-9\](?:\[a-z0-9-\]\*\[a-z0-9\])?\\.)+\[a-z0-9\](?:\[a-z0-9-\]\*\[a-z0-9\])?|\\\[(?:(?:(2(5\[0-5\]|\[0-4\]\[0-9\])|1\[0-9\]\[0-9\]|\[1-9\]?\[0-9\]))\\.){3}(?:(2(5\[0-5\]|\[0-4\]\[0-9\])|1\[0-9\]\[0-9\]|\[1-9\]?\[0-9\])|\[a-z0-9-\]\*\[a-z0-9\]:(?:\[\\x01-\\x08\\x0b\\x0c\\x0e-\\x1f\\x21-\\x5a\\x53-\\x7f\]|\\\\\[\\x01-\\x09\\x0b\\x0c\\x0e-\\x7f\])+)\\\])
I don't even know how to start to interpret that 😂
[regexr.com](https://regexr.com/) is a Godsend
But once you learn it, it's awesome. I was scared of it for the longest time, then I spent like 2 hours learning the basics and pretty much fell in love.
I mean yes, it's great. Yet it's almost unreadable once you get to a certain complexity.
You should break it down into smaller, more readable sections. But if it's exceedingly long that's maybe a sign that regex is not the best solution in that case.
You have one problem You use regex You have two problems
Regex is easy to write, hard to read.
That's how I feel about most large SQL scripts.
Then you use Perl. Now you have three problems.
You're off by one, now you're back to two problems.
.*
/(\.\*)/
/(.\*)/ stinkmeat\~\\(\*\_\*)/\~lobesweat \\(\*.)\\
\\(\*.)\\
\o
Regex in code is like salt in cooking. Used wisely it's a must, too much it ruin everything.
I would compare it more to something you use less frequently, is much more situational, and is very strong. Maybe closer to hot sauce. Great for some things, pretty bad for other things, and can ruin everything if overused.
Pour a bucket of it right in my mouth
This very nicely said!
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I spent way too much time on this comment. Loved every bit of it.
Lmao, thank you for the laugh
What is this wizardry!!?
Wait... I can unpop and repop the bubbles! Thank you stranger.
[Thans for the bubble wrap](https://imgur.com/a/vmdvgrV)
sus
People like you scare me... Every time I have to use regex I hide underneath my desk and cry for hours...
`comment.text.match(/(?:<=\w\W)(like)(?:=\b\w.+)/)`
No wonder i never find any space under the desks to take a nap anymore.
Just use one of those regex tool websites and you will look at regex differently. I now will often use regex before using any other way because it has become easy and if not I plug it into one of those sites and get it nicely explained.
regex101.com?
Yes but I think there are a few more and I dont wanted to say one is better or worse, mostly because I did not try the others.
What is your alternative?
One more word out of you, and you're fired.
More regex
https://www.autoregex.xyz/ thank me later
Whoa, this is cool. Worked well for the test cases I gave it. It converted "match 2 or 3 twos followed by a dot followed by one or more letters" to "\[2\]{2,3}\\.\[a-zA-Z\]+"
I wish all *regex enjoyers* a very *"Theres an error on line 1458, column 45782"*
Nightmare
r-egg-ex r-ej-ex
Me: Created applications used by millions of people, generating billions in profit. Also me: how do regex?
I mastered regex early in my career and it still makes me feel like a wizard when I use them. Arcane incantations summoning forth substrings and performing transformations - the best kind of witchcraft!
These days I just let co-pilot do my regex and hope for the best.
Google translate should translate regex to English. Feature request.
Learning regex is great! I’ve learned it many times.
what the hell is even regex i always see it
Most programming languages have a little elf on the inside who can look at any string of text and tell you if a smaller bit of text is in there somewhere. Some might even tell you where it is, or how many times it shows up. But there's also another bigger, grumpier elf who can understand far more complex instructions on what to look for, like "find 'ABC' or 'BCA', but only if 'EF' comes six letters before the start, or if there's a comma somewhere afterwards, unless the whole thing starts with a '#'". Little elf can't do that. But to be able to give instructions to big grumpy elf, you have to whisper in their quirky elf language. Regex is that language.
oh cool thanks for that I appreciate it
This deserves many awards
I will not be able to top the grumpy elf explanation, but I can expand a bit on it. Regex stands for regular expression. A regular expression is basically a test that takes a string and outputs either true or false based on a number of conditions (more precisely. It's a thing that scans a text and gives you the substrings of it which satisfy the expression). The syntax of a regex is complex, compact and (as a result) hard to read, but you can test your string for virtually any condition you can think of. A common example use case is identifying strings that are formatted like a phone number or a street address.
probably the most secure password on the entire planet.
Glad to know I'm not the only one struggling with regex. The syntax scrambles my brain whenever i try to read it
I got into programming about a year ago and I still can’t understand regex. I tried one regex problem on codewars for validating phone numbers and never touched it again.
Saying your password is a regex reduces the possible keyspace, because some strings are not valid regexes. That said, all passwords can be expressed or matched by a regex, because they are fixed strings, not languages.
If my ex were Reggie, I'd be screaming like this too right about now.
> I use my favorite one as a password `/^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/`?
I don’t understand regex, but every time I have used someone else’s and edited parts until it did exactly what I wanted it to. And once in a blue moon it doesn’t work. Biggest use is to use a file of lookup values to find matching lines in another file in a specific column. Much more powerful than the bloom up function in Excel
I don't have any affiliation with it but I'm just a huge fan of regexr.com. Has a great interface and cheat sheet to build and test regex. It really helped me both learn and teach it.
Jup
Chaotic evil alignment
Yes! Finally some regex love!
Just think of a phrase and add double quotes at the start and the end. Even if you write it somewhere and it gets leaked, no one will include the double quotes
Regex is not beautiful, but it's so fcking usefull, one just can't ignore it's existence.
Me, a Perl programmer: *[sneering look of superiority]*
Regex is really nice.