Making sense of RegExp–or almost

Try saying "RegExp Explain extension" out loud 10 times.

💁 Fun fact: the regular expression to validate email addresses comes from the HTML5 specs and it's what web browsers use. But it's NOT correct. The specs say it's a "willful violation of RFC 5322, which defines a syntax for email addresses that is simultaneously too strict, too vague, and too lax to be of practical use." 😬

[mrhereandthere]

Remember to lower your volume after watched this video guys.

[fortnitegamer-phjg]

Missed opportunity to call it RegExplain

[ZhiYin]

Tried, very buggy (the extension was buggy, not the algorithm). The repo was last edited 2 years ago, which was forked from a repo last edited 4 years ago.

[hemanthkotagiri]

Formal Language and Automata Theory in action there! (I'm referring to the transition diagram).

[comedyclub]

Jokes on you, I can read RegEx pretty well, but WRITING it is a real struggle.

[SnackKingOfficial]

What would be even cooler would be if it were called RegExplain and if you could do that explain on the Find bar whilst typing in a regular expression

[buak]

even with these diagrams it's still mind twisting

[alenyohannan]

Missed the oppertunity to name it "RegExplain"

[ZWZDOzLtxBEO]

Could you make the search and replace expand when a phrase is long enough? Writing regex with such a small input field is pretty tedious, especially when you want to capture or repeat a group

[FranciscoMarcosMilhomemAbreu]

Caramba! Vou já instalar essa extensão!

[HenriqueAraujo]

Whats is wrong with you guys, this video was recorded in portrait so it have huge vertical black bars, then converted in landscape which give another huge horizontal bars on top of it...

[CloudMadeEasy]

Nice.. Really I am working for 9 yrs but still didn't get

[justacasualdeveloper]

Validating an email from regex is cool and all but if you have not created a Context Free Grammer for that, you are not a programmer at all.

[dfelo]

Why not learn about regex... It's actually not that hard....

[lllIIlllI]

Please make the video louder next time.

[docmaillou]

can you let me just not learn it please...

[Mempler]

Heck, i used regex for making a data language (just like json or xml) for my game engine, was hell to write them, some of them are 80 characters (just for a single /* ...\n */ | // comment)