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I'm still dreaming of a search engine that parses regular expressions. When that happens I'm there. Yesterday.

• epi0Bauqu 16y ago
  I know this isn't exactly what you meant... http://thor.duckduckgo.com/?q=regexp+/ http://thor.duckduckgo.com/?q=regexp+/(.*)/+ddg Edit: Looks like yc cut off my link there--copy and paste the full thing.
  • shimonamit 16y ago
    I'll remember that. Thanks!
• daten 16y ago
  It would be an interesting day if someone could make regular expression searches over a large data set as fast as keyword or phrase searches against a sorted and indexed database. They also need to make sure they use an implementation that doesn't suffer from exponential time[1] regular expressions. [1] - http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
  • util 16y ago
    This basically exists for source code now: http://www.google.com/codesearch http://www.google.com/codesearch