[lug] Regex Help

[Brennen Bearnes]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Jeffrey S. Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com
> wrote:

(2) If I'm debugging a regex, I never do it in the program.  I do it on the
> command line with this idiom:
>
> $ *perl -ne 'print if s(regex)(XXXXX)'*
>
>
To this, I'll add that if you're using a tool or language with regex support
based on PCRE (www.pcre.org), it may be worth checking out pcretest(1).

I mention this mostly because I have been bitten on more than one occasion
by ways in which "Perl Compatible Regular Expressions" are not.

-- Brennen
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