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Yea or Nay this idea, please. I've had it for a month or so.
Around the time of my "regex reversal" craze, I also had the idea of providing, as a learning tool (or more?), a means of translating from a simple english specification to a Perl regex. The idea being that this would help people understand what a regex does by forming one from what they say. An example might be (if it were function-oriented): This is pretty easy to read, no? And it helps make a connection between the "line noise" and the instruction associated with it. Here's another example, if it were to parse a string holding the specification: It looks very similar (and it should). It's just a matter of "do I want to make lots of functions" or "do I want to do a lot of parsing". But before I do this... would anyone find it useful? I'm not about to waste time on something no one needs. japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker In reply to Regex Learning Tool by japhy
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