• Pleonasm@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Who is this for? People who write lots of regular expressions won’t need it because they know what they’re doing and people who don’t write lots of regular expressions probably won’t find it anyway.

    It just seems like a weird type of user who actually wants this.

    • realitista@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I almost never use regex, but when I do, I’d love something like this. Exactly because I don’t use regex enough to be bothered learning it’s impenetrable syntax.

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        1 year ago

        I learned enough to see how powerful it was, then started using it within Sublime Text to edit data from time to time. (Extract URLs or something from a websites code, reformat X or Y data for a script I’m hacking together) and I’ve slowly retained more and more of the elements I repeatedly use. I think I’ve actually got a pretty good grasp on it. Maybe you should be using it more.

        • Kempeth@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          When you want to get better using a hammer, just treat everything as a nail.