RegExp forum / board in here?

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Who thinks we should have a board for RegExp questions?

Poll ended at Sun May 08, 2005 7:24 pm

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Chris Corbyn
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RegExp forum / board in here?

Post by Chris Corbyn »

We get quite a few questions relating to regular expressions in here.

Now, regular expressions aren't exclusive to PHP.... it would be quite handy to have a board in here for regex.... who agrees? (I'd like it anyway :P - and I'm sure feyd would).
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I agree, I would like to see a centralized forum for Regex!! :D

Many questions here pertain to regex in PHP, so it seems fitting..
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Post by timvw »

it would make it more general, and call it the parsing/lexing forum...
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Post by n00b Saibot »

Yay! d11wtq. good move. That will be a good place for us lesser of the Regexers to turn to. It seems to me like that finally I am getting to understand them in depth, heh heh ;)

PS: Hey d11wtq! how is your PHP-Editor coming along :?:
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

n00b Saibot wrote: PS: Hey d11wtq! how is your PHP-Editor coming along :?:
Slowly.... it's tricky to prevent conflicts with matching keywords inside of strings and / or comments. I will get it done though :-)
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Post by neophyte »

Great idea!
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Post by John Cartwright »

I wouldnt mind having one. Although not very many people have enough of a handle on regex to help in the first place :?
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Jcart wrote:I wouldnt mind having one. Although not very many people have enough of a handle on regex to help in the first place :?
Lemme be a mod and I'll moderate it LOL :P

It'd just be nice to have these categorized... it will make searching easier too.

I guess I should have had a third option "What is a RegExp?" LOL
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Post by timvw »

imho the answer to that question would be a nice sticky subject... :)
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Post by feyd »

Moved to suggestions.. :?
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Post by vigge89 »

I think it would be pretty handy, as you could not only ask questions, but get ready-to-use patterns easily :)

Also, nothing that big, but the Client-side forum should imo be split into HTML, CSS and Client-Languages (Javascript, DHTML, DOM, etc.).
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Post by JayBird »

...or just use this site http://www.regexlib.com/
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Post by nigma »

it would make it more general, and call it the parsing/lexing forum...
I agree with tim in that I definitely think it would help to have a seperate place to ask these questions but also that the name should be a little more abstract.
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

It's arrived at long last :P

viewforum.php?f=38

Enjoy ;-)
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