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Debugging regexes

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Debugging regexes
Date	2014-04-24 05:39 -0700
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
Message-ID	<kd1il9po8nstd06tt2pqfe741hg48885r7@4ax.com> (permalink)

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Regexes are  black box. If they fail, you have no idea where.

It would be nice if Matcher had some debugging methods to tell you the
offset and length of the best/longest match it was able to make, even
if it did not completely match.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea; if it's original, you'll
 have to shove it down their throats." 
~ Howard Aiken (born: 1900-03-08 died: 1973-03-14 at age: 73)

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Debugging regexes Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-04-24 05:39 -0700
  Re: Debugging regexes leif.roar@invalid.com (Leif Roar Moldskred) - 2014-04-24 09:38 -0500
    Re: Debugging regexes Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-04-24 20:21 -0700
      Re: Debugging regexes markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2014-04-25 00:17 -0700
        Re: Debugging regexes Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-04-25 01:05 -0700
  Re: Debugging regexes Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2014-04-25 10:09 -0700
    Re: Debugging regexes Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-05-05 23:19 -0700

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