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You should build a tool that is the inverse of this. Let people build regular expressions by creating the visual diagram (some sort of click and drag GUI).
by Tycho 14y ago
You should build a tool that is the inverse of this. Let people build regular expressions by creating the visual diagram (some sort of click and drag GUI).
- jbrennan 14y agoI've always wondered why there doesn't already exist such a tool. Regex strings are so opaque and hard to read. We can't really fix that for code (short of building objects), but what we could fix is a better way to write them. A graphical tool to create them, built of units instead of just strings, and the output could still be a regex string.
- mpyne 14y agoKDE 3 had KRegExpEditor (http://www.blackie.dk/KDE/KRegExpEditor/ http://www.blackie.dk/KDE/KRegExpEditor/) but it only recently found someone interested in porting it to KDE 4.
- brendanib 14y ago+1 to this idea.
- jotux 14y agosimilar: http://txt2re.com/ http://txt2re.com/