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[andrewducker]

[Poll #1825001]

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[andrewducker]

What do you think the chances of any of the regexes I'm bumping into have used that are?

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Heh, any I write that are longer than a dozen characters or a bit hairy I explode like that. Because I know I'll need to understand them in 6 months' time.

*insert rant about shoddy coders here*

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

So what you *really* want, Andy, isn't a regexp *editor* so much as a regexp *pretty printer.

I'd be shocked if there wasn't something like that already: give it a V8 regexp, and it'll spit it out nicely formatted in /x format.

[skington.livejournal.com]

Then add white space etc. to them yourself. Build a test suite with enough data extracted from the wild that you're confident that you're not breaking the regex, if it's complicated enough.

[andrewducker]

This still doesn't prevent tiling being very useful for both reading (and occasionally writing) regular expressions.