From: Jeff Pritchard <jp@...>
Date: 2006-07-31T09:01:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Howto Delete 3 Leftmost Characters

Esteban Manchado =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vel=E1zquez?= wrote:
>...snip...
> That is, "remove, from the beginning of the line, '#ip' followed by one 
> or
> more space characters (be them spaces, tabs or whatever)".> 
>...snip...
>     Regards,

Reading this explanation of the regexp that was provided reminded me 
again of a question that has been haunting me for awhile.  Has anyone 
written an "English language to Regexp" converter?

It seems to me that for relatively simple cases it should be relatively 
easy to set up something similar to the way most email apps do rule 
building for filtering messages, with a drop down list of "contains, 
starts with, doesn't contain, ends with, ...) and a couple of buttons 
for adding/removing another line of such stuff.  Sort of a wizard for 
building RegExp.

Unless you write two or three RegExp's a day, it seems nearly impossible 
to remember this arcane but useful syntax.  Being able to write them in 
plain English or build one with some simple drop downs and check boxes 
etc. would certainly save me some pain on occasion.  I've searched for 
something like this before but never found anything.

jp

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