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Mike Agar, 05/08/08
If you've ever had to write a regular expression, and don't use regex regularly, then you know my pain. It hurts so bad, that I often run off and find a different way to solve the problem. Or I only use it for very basic pattern matching (starts with, ends with, etc.)
That all changed today: txt2re makes this task so damn easy!!! Genius? Well, it is a very clever tool: 10/04/08 - What date is this? mm/dd/yy or yy/mm/dd or dd/mm/yy? Presumably as the owner of the data you'd know, and over on the txt2re site it simply lets you choose the right pattern match. Brilliant!
Seriously, why would I ever go off, again, and crack the spine on one of those dusty UNIX books to look up this grammar? I won't. This tool is so much fun, that it is actually teaching me regex as a side effect. Go on and challenge it with an email address, see what it does...
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