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regex tidy

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	regex tidy
Date	2014-05-23 11:39 -0700
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
Message-ID	<375vn9th0bc1faa04eg136be53hbvfjq4v@4ax.com> (permalink)

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What would a Java regex tidier do?

Here are some ideas:

1. remove nugatory \ quoting

2. convert \s*\s* --> \s*

3. alphabetise | lists.

4. remove (?:... ) that is not doing anything.

5. put [..] lists in canonical order.  

6. Convert runs of 4+ to a-d notation.

7. use negative char lists when it would shorten the list.
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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
Young man, in mathematics you don’t understand things.
You just get used to them. 
~ John von Neumann (born: 1903-12-28 died: 1957-02-08 at age: 53)

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regex tidy Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-05-23 11:39 -0700
  Re: regex tidy leif.roar@invalid.com (Leif Roar Moldskred) - 2014-05-23 14:33 -0500
    Re: regex tidy Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2014-05-23 15:05 -0500
  Re: regex tidy Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2014-05-24 14:55 +0200
    Re: regex tidy Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-05-25 09:09 -0700
      Re: regex tidy Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2014-05-25 18:49 +0200
        Re: regex tidy leif.roar@invalid.com (Leif Roar Moldskred) - 2014-05-25 12:28 -0500
          Re: regex tidy Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2014-05-25 19:55 +0200
          Re: regex tidy "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-05-26 12:12 +0100
    Re: regex tidy Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-05-25 09:10 -0700
    Re: regex tidy Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-05-25 09:13 -0700
    Re: regex tidy Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-05-25 09:21 -0700
      Re: regex tidy Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2014-05-25 13:31 -0500
        Re: regex tidy "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-05-26 12:31 +0100

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