o.O

[denise]

Regular Expression Generator

Billed as "headache relief for programmers".

(Insert applicable jwz quote about regular expressions here.)

Comments

[attie]

That colour scheme is worth more headaches than any regular expression could ever be. >.<

[dreamatdrew]

This my fault, or did you find it somewhere else?

What, no sed/vi/vim/ex language button?

[eftychia]

That's (a) an awfully counterintuitive interface, though I did eventually figure it out, (b) still pretty darned cool, but (c) falls so far short of what I usually need when I have to think more than two seconds about an RE that I wonder whether I've been using the wrong tools for a while and need to finally get around to finding out what lexx and yacc do. (If that RE tool had a button for "the pitch part of a note in ABC syntax" or "a complete ABC note with or without all the optional components", that'd be helpful -- and that can be done with an RE -- but I guess that's really more of a write-a-parser situation than a write-a-RE situation.) I guess the author has done me a service by making it easier for me to see that, even if I'm not the right audience for that particular tool.

[brownbetty]

Oh my gosh, the front-end makes me want to laugh hysterically, it feels like the punchline to RegExes as a whole.

[andrewducker]

If you're using Windows then I swear by Expresso.

[jld]

Wow. The color scheme, the interface, the generated code… was this by any chance originally unveiled on April 1st?

[vlion]

Da wha? Nifty, I think.

I think it might be useful, sometimes?

I mean, it's massively cool from a theoretical POV, but If I can't do it in a few blobs of re, more re won't help, and I go to my trusty ifs/whiles/etc.