I've written a new Javascript utility that adds dynamic regex syntax highlighting to regular expressions displayed on any web page. When you hover your mouse cursor over any grouping parentheses, the matching parentheses and any | OR characters at that nesting level will
light up so that you can visually see the regex structure. It will also highlight character classes and comments. The script source code is released as open source and is hosted on Github. If you into regex, I think you'll agree - its pretty cool. Here are the links:
Main page:
http://jmrware.com/.../DynamicRegexHighlighter.html
Interactive Tester page:
http://jmrware.com/.../DynamicRegexHighlighterTester.html
Github repo:
http://github.com/jmrware/DynamicRegexHighlighter
One possibility for its use is to add a new [REGEX] BBcode to the forum software and then include the Javascript file to provide enhanced viewing of postings having regular expressions. This is precisely what I plan to do with the forum software project I'm involved with:(
FluxBB)
Enjoy!
Jeff Roberson
