That's a tricky one. Wizards and auto-complete tools work best for tasks
that are defined and repetetive; RE's in my experience are neither. RE's
don't have a rigid syntactical framework like programming languages. By
definition you are matching arbitrary strings. I think the best way, albeit
tricky, would be to create a natural language tool. What I'm envisioning is
something like MS SQL Server's English Language Query engine whereby a user
could enter, in "natural" language, the criteria and have the program
decipher and convert that into a valid RE.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 10:57 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Regular Expressions - Programming Interface?
Per a discussion at last night's CFUG,
Is anyone aware of any programming interface that would help new programmers
learn to write regular expressions? Preferably Perl-style REs, but actually
I would be interested to see if anyone has some kind of "regular expression
builder" or programming interface for CF, Perl or any RE-capable language.
I am not sure what this would look like, but like many of us I have been
casually writing REs by hand for the last 8 years and I don't remember ever
seeing anything to assist new programmers other than books.
thanks for any info,
Don
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