On 13.03.2012 23:42, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Dmitry Olshansky"<dmitry.o...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:jjo73v$4gv$1...@digitalmars.com...
For a couple of releases we have a new revamped std.regex, that as far as
I'm concerned works nicely, thanks to my GSOC commitment last summer. Yet
there was certain dark trend around std.regex/std.regexp as both had
severe bugs, missing documentation and what not, enough to consider them
unusable or dismiss prematurely.
It's about time to break this gloomy aura, and show that std.regex is
actually easy to use, that it does the thing and has some nice extras.
Link: http://blackwhale.github.com/regular-expression.html
Comments are welcome from experts and newbies alike, in fact it should
encourage people to try out a few tricks ;)
This is intended as replacement for an article on dlang.org
about outdated (and soon to disappear) std.regexp:
http://dlang.org/regular-expression.html
[Spoiler] one example relies on a parser bug being fixed (blush):
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/481
Well, it was a specific lookahead inside lookaround so that's not severe
bug ;)
P.S. I've been following through a bunch of new bug reports recently,
thanks to everyone involved :)
Looks nice at an initial glance through. Few things I'll point out though:
- The bullet-list immediately after the text "Now, come to think of it, this
tiny sample showed a lot of useful things already:" looks like it's
outdented instead of indented. Just kinda looks a little odd.
- Speaking of the same line, I'd omit the "Now, come to think of it" part.
It sounds too "stream-of-conciousness" and not very "professional article".
Thanks, these are kind of things I intend to fix/improve/etc.
Hence the [draft] prefix.
- I'm very much in favor of using backticked strings for regexes instead of
r"", because with the latter, you can't include double-quotes, which I'd
think would be a much more common need in a regex than a backtick. Although
I understand that backticks aren't easy to make on some keyboards. (In the
US layout I have, it's just an unshifted tilde, ie, the key just to the left
of "1". I guess some people don't have a backtick key though?)
Same here, but I recall there is a movement (was it?) against backticked
strings, including some of DPL's highly ranked members ;)
So I thought that maybe it's best to not impose my (perverted?) style on
readers.
--
Dmitry Olshansky
