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- Yes, run it locally. (Sometimes I want to test against sensitive information) - Learn how a regex editor is built. - Use a different regex engine (is that p
by blaines 14y ago
- Yes, run it locally. (Sometimes I want to test against sensitive information)
- Learn how a regex editor is built.
- Use a different regex engine (is that possible to swap)? [1]
I'm sure there are more reasons.
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_regular_expression_engines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_regular_expressio...
- riffraff 14y agoas for [1] yes, you're just unable to use ruby's syntax. Oniguruma (regex engine in ruby1.9) existed as an external library in the past (1.8) and you can get stuff like re2 for ruby this days[1] [1] https://github.com/mudge/re2 https://github.com/mudge/re2