Maverick — Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:33:21 +0000

Indeed! For those of us that consider regular expressions a cross between hieroglyphics, ancient Sanskrit and just plain voodoo, it would be nice to have an English to regex conversion utility available. That would be an extremely useful tool.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 21 Feb 2001 06:14:36 +0000

wow!
now that's something I think a lot of people would use to learn REGEX

English-to-Regex

japhy — Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:46:53 +0000

If you mean something that can turn:

"(1 to 3 digits, a period) 3 times, 1 to 3 digits"

to:

/(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}/

Then that is currently in the works. Something LIKE it, at least. I'm not sure what "grammar" to accept.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:00:33 +0000

very nice!!
..now, can you get one to go the other way?