[ANN] Regex Tester Tool for Pharo

> Hi,
>
> I wrote a little tool to test regular expressions and verify that
> given samples match it. It also helps to divide an expression into
> subexpressions to retrieve parts of a matched string.
>
> Screenshot is attached. Code, load instructions and full tutorial
> on how to use it is on https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Regex-Tools
>
> Hope it is useful for others too. Have fun!
>
> Bye
> T.

> On 1 Mar 2017, at 21:32, Torsten Bergmann <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wrote a little tool to test regular expressions and verify that
> given samples match it. It also helps to divide an expression into
> subexpressions to retrieve parts of a matched string.
>
> Screenshot is attached. Code, load instructions and full tutorial
> on how to use it is on https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Regex-Tools
>
> Hope it is useful for others too. Have fun!
>
> Bye
> T.<Tool.png>

> Am 02.03.2017 um 09:54 schrieb Peter Uhnak <[hidden email]>:
>
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 09:20:12AM +0100, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
>>
>>> On 1 Mar 2017, at 22:40, stepharong <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> And I think that his remark makes sense. I was wondering if we should not ressurect
>>> the RePlugin to make sure that users can use perlish regexp and do not feel that our world is strange.
>>
>> +1
>>
>
> +23
>
> I've been using regexes casually for years and yet every time I use them in Pharo I have to open the help and end up using PetitParser or parsing it manually anyway…
>

>>>> And I think that his remark makes sense. I was wondering if we should  
>>>> not ressurect
>>>> the RePlugin to make sure that users can use perlish regexp and do  
>>>> not feel that our world is strange.
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>
>> +23
>>
>> I've been using regexes casually for years and yet every time I use  
>> them in Pharo I have to open the help and end up using PetitParser or  
>> parsing it manually anyway…
>>
> Which are good reasons not to improve regex support ;)