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JavaScript Regular expressions made easy

33 mentions on Hacker News by 28 people: 17 stories, 16 comments · first 2013-07-21 · latest 2025-04-10

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  1. …RegEx benefits compared to parser combinators other than compactness aren't obvious to me. [1]: < https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions/tre... >
    comment by qrobit · 2025-04-10 · in Parser Combinators Beat Regexes
  2. …simply not using it if at all possible. A comment further up offered a very promising alternative. https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions#tes... It's a bit verbose, but I don't care anymore, I am too much a veteran to…
    comment by RobertRoberts · 2022-12-30 · in Pomsky – A portable, modern regular expression language
  3. …need to know regular expressions and the library has ports for most programming languages. Example: https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions#tes...
    comment by antman · 2022-12-30 · in Pomsky – A portable, modern regular expression language
  4. There's also VerbalExpressions library that's been ported to 30+ languages: https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions
    comment by jehna1 · 2021-01-21 · in Super-expressive – Write regex in natural language
  5. > For example https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions is a library that lets developers express regexps using a fluent API. Except from what I can see, it only supports trivial cases. What's a syntax that supports…
    comment by kbenson · 2019-10-16 · in Getting started with regular expressions: An example
  6. …mode" does have merits, though, and I wouldn't want to get rid of it or anything. [0]: For example https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions is a library that lets developers express regexps using a fluent API. This changes…
    comment by l_t · 2019-10-15 · in Getting started with regular expressions: An example
  7. Here's a somewhat related project that aims to make regular expressions more verbose: https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions Here's a simple example for matching URLs: const tester = VerEx() .startOfLine() .then('http')…
    comment by jehna1 · 2019-02-08 · in Show HN: Nevod is easier and faster than RegExp
  8. …expressions' projects from years back: https://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/08/26/verbal-expression/ https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions https://medium.com/@leighsn/verbal-expressions-in-ruby-fb8a9...
    comment by seltzered_ · 2018-11-19 · in ReX.js – Your RegEx companion
  9. There's this[1] effort for a more readable syntax[2][3]. [1] https://verbalexpressions.github.io/ [2] https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions [3] https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/PythonVerbalExpressions
    comment by jklehm · 2018-03-04 · in Exploring the Linguistics Behind Regular Expressions
  10. Interesting, thanks for mentioning! Looks similar to VerbalExpressions ( https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions/wik... )
    comment by tkp · 2018-01-31 · in Regexper – Regular expressions visualizer
  11. https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions
    comment by Retra · 2016-08-12 · in DeepRegex: Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language
  12. …interface to the underlying regular expressions tools, in MANY languages. Including: JavaScript - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions ActionScript 3 - https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/AS3VerbalExpressions Clojure -…
    comment by techdragon · 2016-07-27 · in LastPass autofill exploit
  13. There're some other options for regex syntax: https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions
    comment by Retra · 2015-08-07 · in In search of the perfect URL validation regex
  14. You might like https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions
    comment by tealtan · 2014-02-24 · in Q – Execute SQL on text. Supports joins across files, RPM available
  15. I liked the API in Verbal Expressions a bit more: https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions
    comment by juandopazo · 2013-08-18 · in Show HN: js-regex, a fluent regex builder for JavaScript
  16. …the regex building. Thanks Jehna for a great little library! So useful. VerbalExpressions.js: https://github.com/jehna/VerbalExpressions Build RegEx on Github: https://github.com/stevenwadejr/Build-Regex
    comment by stevenwadejr · 2013-08-05 · in Show HN: Build RegEx - A Simple RegEx GUI