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the original said reggae but i misread it as regex and got this idea lol

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Ugh I don’t miss having to parse someone else’s regex at my old job.

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[–] jjj@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Is there a version of regex with comments?

I mean one would typically insert it as a literal in another language but if there are flexible macros it could be done without any runtime cost/standard reinventing.

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[–] blueduck@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

PCRE supports inline comments:

foo(?# match literal foo)\d+

Also verbose mode

pattern = re.compile(r"""  
    ^               # start of string  
    [A-Z]{2}        # two uppercase letters  
    \d{4}           # four digits  
    $               # end of string  
""", re.VERBOSE)

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[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

I've seen attempts of regex pre-processors, where you'd get some builder API like:

pattern
  .digits(3)
  .literal(" - ")

Can't use that in configurations, though, unless you template the configuration, I guess...

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[–] kartoffelsaft@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

There is Backus-Naur form (and it's derivatives), which at least lets you name each section of text like you would a variable or function. Technically matches context-free expressions rather than regular ones but that's hardly different for most cases.

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 point 1 month ago

Emacs has the rx macro: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Rx-Notation.html

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