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I'd agree if there wasn't an extremely good solution to this problem. Verbal Expressions - It's an extremely good higher level interface to the underlying regu

I'd agree if there wasn't an extremely good solution to this problem. Verbal Expressions - It's an extremely good higher level interface to the underlying regular expressions tools, in MANY languages. Including: JavaScript - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions ActionScript 3 - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/AS3VerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/AS3VerbalExpressions Clojure - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/ClojureVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/ClojureVerbalExpression... C++ - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/CppVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/CppVerbalExpressions C# - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/CSharpVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/CSharpVerbalExpressions Dart - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/DartVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/DartVerbalExpressions Elixir - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/ElixirVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/ElixirVerbalExpressions Elm - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/elm-verbal-expressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/elm-verbal-expressions Erlang - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/ErlangVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/ErlangVerbalExpressions FreeBasic - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/FreeBasicVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/FreeBasicVerbalExpressi... F# - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/FSharpVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/FSharpVerbalExpressions Go - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/GoVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/GoVerbalExpressions Groovy - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/GroovyVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/GroovyVerbalExpressions Haskell - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/HaskellVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/HaskellVerbalExpression... Haxe - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/HaxeVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/HaxeVerbalExpressions Java - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JavaVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JavaVerbalExpressions Lua - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/LuaVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/LuaVerbalExpressions Objective C - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/ObjectiveCVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/ObjectiveCVerbalExpress... Perl - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/PerlVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/PerlVerbalExpressions PHP - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/PHPVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/PHPVerbalExpressions PowerShell - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/PowerShellVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/PowerShellVerbalExpress... PureScript - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/purescript-verbal-expressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/purescript-verbal-expre... Python - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/PythonVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/PythonVerbalExpressions Racket - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/RacketVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/RacketVerbalExpressions Ruby - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/RubyVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/RubyVerbalExpressions Rust - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/RustVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/RustVerbalExpressions Scala - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/ScalaVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/ScalaVerbalExpressions Swift - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/SwiftVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/SwiftVerbalExpressions Vala - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/ValaVerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/ValaVerbalExpressions And probably more, but that's just the "official" implementations.

obsurveyor 10y ago
You could have just linked to http://verbalexpressions.github.io http://verbalexpressions.github.io instead of spamming all the repositories. Also, about half of them are out of date by 3 or more years.
- elktea 10y ago
  The point being it's available for a wide range of languages
  - techdragon 10y ago
    Exactly... I probably could have posted less of them but in an era of TLDR it was easy enough to just post the list and let the uninterested scroll past and ignore it. That I have down votes for pointing out how practically no developers are without an option to guard against poorly written regular expressions, feels somewhat overkill.
dpark 10y ago
I don't see how this would have prevented this problem. The issue was not that regular expressions were "too hard" for the lastpass team, but that URLs are hard to parse correctly. To put it another way, if you don't know how to parse a URL correctly, you'll probably write an incorrect parser no matter what parsing tool you use. That's why you generally shouldn't write parsers for URLs.

obsurveyor 10y ago

You could have just linked to http://verbalexpressions.github.io http://verbalexpressions.github.io instead of spamming all the repositories. Also, about half of them are out of date by 3 or more years.

elktea 10y ago
The point being it's available for a wide range of languages
- techdragon 10y ago
  Exactly... I probably could have posted less of them but in an era of TLDR it was easy enough to just post the list and let the uninterested scroll past and ignore it. That I have down votes for pointing out how practically no developers are without an option to guard against poorly written regular expressions, feels somewhat overkill.

dpark 10y ago

I don't see how this would have prevented this problem. The issue was not that regular expressions were "too hard" for the lastpass team, but that URLs are hard to parse correctly. To put it another way, if you don't know how to parse a URL correctly, you'll probably write an incorrect parser no matter what parsing tool you use. That's why you generally shouldn't write parsers for URLs.