Curious too know if anyone uses or has used the product Regex Buddy ?
It supposedly supports Ruby regexp and is supposed to make the use of
regular expressions a lot easier.
btw, I'm not connected to the software or company but would like to
know how it fits in with Ruby programming.
Stuart
Dark Ambient schrieb:
Curious too know if anyone uses or has used the product Regex Buddy ?
It supposedly supports Ruby regexp and is supposed to make the use of
regular expressions a lot easier.
btw, I'm not connected to the software or company but would like to
know how it fits in with Ruby programming.Stuart
it's a great tool, I _love_ it...
It prevents you from doing stupid little mistakes that take you hours to find out...
you can even debug you regex and learn a lot!
ruby (and lot's of other languages / regex flavours) got some decent support and
you can even create fancy little code snippets with it!
regards
Peter
Should have asked this in my original post, but just thought of it.
Does it make a good learning tool for regexp ?
Stuart
On 7/8/06, Pete <pertl@gmx.org> wrote:
Dark Ambient schrieb:
> Curious too know if anyone uses or has used the product Regex Buddy ?
> It supposedly supports Ruby regexp and is supposed to make the use of
> regular expressions a lot easier.
> btw, I'm not connected to the software or company but would like to
> know how it fits in with Ruby programming.
>
> Stuart
it's a great tool, I _love_ it...It prevents you from doing stupid little mistakes that take you hours to
find out...you can even debug you regex and learn a lot!
ruby (and lot's of other languages / regex flavours) got some decent
support and
you can even create fancy little code snippets with it!regards
Peter
There's also RegexpCoach
http://weitz.de/regex-coach/
Which is free for private or non-commercial use. I think this is a
good tool for learning as you can investigate closely how a regexp
goes about matching text. If RegexpBuddy has similar functionality
then it's probably equally suited to support learning. And then of
course there is http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/ which is a great
book.
Kind regards
robert
2006/7/8, Dark Ambient <sambient@gmail.com>:
Should have asked this in my original post, but just thought of it.
Does it make a good learning tool for regexp ?
--
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I can't say that I support RegexBuddy 100%. At a glance, it's a very powerful and comes with many useful features that appear to be robust. Their library of regex is quite excellent that you can get a lot of help very quickly. It can generate Ruby/Perl/Python/Java code to support regular expressions. However, it has problems dealing with language specific regular expressions and breaks down when an expression gets a bit complicated. Also, when I contacted the support, I never hear from them at all! Bottom line: if you like the features it supports and find them useful, buy it. I think it provides a great way to learn and experiment. If you're well versed in regular expressions, it may not help you much. If you're looking for support, I hope that you have a lot of time and patience!
--Craig
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Subject: Re: OT: Regexp buddy
Should have asked this in my original post, but just thought of it.
Does it make a good learning tool for regexp ?Stuart
On 7/8/06, Pete <pertl@gmx.org> wrote:
Dark Ambient schrieb:
> Curious too know if anyone uses or has used the product Regex Buddy ?
> It supposedly supports Ruby regexp and is supposed to make the use of
> regular expressions a lot easier.
> btw, I'm not connected to the software or company but would like to
> know how it fits in with Ruby programming.
>
> Stuart
it's a great tool, I _love_ it...It prevents you from doing stupid little mistakes that take you hours to
find out...you can even debug you regex and learn a lot!
ruby (and lot's of other languages / regex flavours) got some decent
support and
you can even create fancy little code snippets with it!regards
Peter
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On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 23:04:50 +0900, you wrote:
There's also RegexpCoach
The Regex Coach - interactive regular expressions
Speaking of learning regexps for ruby, is there somewhere a
comprehensive list of just what syntax ruby's regular expression
engine does and doesn't support? I can't find any documentation, for
example, that shows that ruby's regexp engine supports perl's "don't
backtrack" notation (?>pat), but that it does not support the
"look-behind" features found in perl, python, and java's regular
expression engines.
I mean, I suppose I can go and try ever construct mentioned in perlre
in irb and see what happens, but it'd be nice if the documentation
existed somewhere.
Have a look here:
http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/doc/RE.txt
On 7/11/06, Daniel Martin <martin@snowplow.org> wrote:
Speaking of learning regexps for ruby, is there somewhere a
comprehensive list of just what syntax ruby's regular expression
engine does and doesn't support? I can't find any documentation, for
example, that shows that ruby's regexp engine supports perl's "don't
backtrack" notation (?>pat), but that it does not support the
"look-behind" features found in perl, python, and java's regular
expression engines.I mean, I suppose I can go and try ever construct mentioned in perlre
in irb and see what happens, but it'd be nice if the documentation
existed somewhere.
--
Simon Strandgaard
"Simon Strandgaard" <neoneye@gmail.com> writes:
Have a look here:
That's nice, but it doesn't document ruby's Regexp engine, at least
not the one in Ruby 1.8.4; the document says:
(?<=subexp) look-behind
But:
irb(main):032:0> Regexp.new('(?<=abc)')
RegexpError: undefined (?...) sequence: /(?<=abc)/
from (irb):32:in `initialize'
from (irb):32
I suspect that this documents what will be, in the Ruby 2.0 that's
going to have easy built-in support for unicode in all its glory.
That still leaves the current engine undocumented.
from :0
Section A-4 of the above document tells you the differences between the new regexp engine and the current one. You could do a mental diff <g>
On Jul 11, 2006, at 2:12 PM, Daniel Martin wrote:
"Simon Strandgaard" <neoneye@gmail.com> writes:
Have a look here:
That's nice, but it doesn't document ruby's Regexp engine, at least
not the one in Ruby 1.8.4; the document says:(?<=subexp) look-behind
But:
irb(main):032:0> Regexp.new('(?<=abc)')
RegexpError: undefined (?...) sequence: /(?<=abc)/
from (irb):32:in `initialize'
from (irb):32
from :0I suspect that this documents what will be, in the Ruby 2.0 that's
going to have easy built-in support for unicode in all its glory.That still leaves the current engine undocumented.