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Re: negative regexes.

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: negative regexes.
Date	2011-01-29 08:30 -0800
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:02:18 +0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie
<martin@address-in-sig.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

I think the solution is NOT to use a simple text editor for creating
and proofreading regexes. The problem of escaping is just too messy.

I think it should be done with a plugin to the IDE.  I have written a
number of ideas about how such a beast might work. Almost any
convention to make it easy to tell the difference between a command
letter and a data letter makes life 5 times simpler.  You also want to
get the Java quoting out the way.  Two layers of quoting boggles the
mediocre mind.

See http://mindprod.com/project/regexcomposer.html
http://mindprod.com/project/regexdebugger.html
http://mindprod.com/project/regexproofreader.html
http://mindprod.com/project/regexutility.html


-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
~ Farmer's Almanac
It is breathtaking how a misplaced comma in a computer program can
shred megabytes of data in seconds.

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