From: Florian Gross Date: 2004-11-20T10:58:10+09:00 Subject: Re: Tales of the Regex (Re: About Regular Expressions) Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 04:26:08AM +0900, James Britt wrote: >>One a side note, I wonder what it would take to write a domain language, >>parable by Ruby, that let one write REs in plain-ish English? Maybe >>take some of the mystery out of regular expressions for most of the >>common cases. (Or would that just get people dependent on too much >>hand-holding?) > Take a look at Florian Gro�' Regexp::English. > Short example: http://www.rubycookbook.org/cookbook/view/ReadableRegularExpressions This is available at http://noegnud.sourceforge.net/.flgr/re_english.zip (for now -- I can't guarantee it being there permanently. Sorry.)