Verbal Expressions: Regular Expressions made Easy...

agraham

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Don Manfred already has a wrap for this library and Erel did something similar.

Verbal Expressions (regex helper)

This is a wrap for this Github project. VerbalRegEx Author: DonManfred (wrapper) Version: 1 VerbalExpression Methods: Initialize IsInitialized As Boolean add (pValue As String) As VerbalExpressionWrapper Append literal expression Everything added to the expression should go trough this...
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[B4X] RegexBuilder - Builder for Regular Expressions

This class is compatible with B4A, B4i and B4J. Regex is a very powerful tool for parsing strings. However the regex syntax can be a bit difficult if you are not using regex regularly. Reading a regex pattern and understanding it is even more challenging. The purpose of RegexBuilder is to...
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Erel

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RegexBuilder was not successful => it is mostly unused, including by myself.

I think that there are three main reasons:
1. It is a thin abstraction above regex. You still need to understand regex in order to use it, especially with more complex cases.
2. Verbosity doesn't really make the code more clear.
3. Regex is popular enough and all developers should be familiar with its syntax in some level.

Many years ago I worked in a large enterprise and they always liked to add more and more layers. Instead of writing nice SQL queries, they used a framework named iBatis (still active: https://blog.mybatis.org/). So as a developer you needed to understand both SQL and this new framework which had all kinds of quirks by itself.
 
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