[UPHPU] regex creator?

[Travis Barney]

I ran across this a while ago, not exactly what you are talking about... but
I just thought id pass it along and share the bookmark.

http://www.strfriend.com/
"visualize regular expressions simply"


On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Daniel C. <dcrookston at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ash's thread got me thinking - how hard would it be to make a regex
> creator?  You'd enter all the things you want it to match, one per
> line, and the script automatically generates the regex for you.  In
> Ash's example your input would look like this:
>
> A-z
> 0-9
> ,
> (
> )
> '
> :
> .
>
> Putting something like that together should be trivial (shouldn't it?)
> but I've never heard of one in all of the discussions of regexes that
> have come up.  Is there a reason nothing like this exists, other than
> that no-one has bothered?  Have I fundamentally misunderstood regexes
> in some way?
>
> Dan
>
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