yogthos OP , 4 months ago

Sure, learning basics of regex is not that hard, but complex regex expressions can easily become impenetrable. I actually like the verbal expressions idea where you write out the regex using a long form and that gets compiled into the actual regex, e.g:

<span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">const </span><span style="color:#323232;">tester </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">= </span><span style="color:#323232;">VerEx()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .startOfLine()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .then(</span><span style="color:#183691;">'http'</span><span style="color:#323232;">)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .maybe(</span><span style="color:#183691;">'s'</span><span style="color:#323232;">)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .then(</span><span style="color:#183691;">'://'</span><span style="color:#323232;">)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .maybe(</span><span style="color:#183691;">'www.'</span><span style="color:#323232;">)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .anythingBut(</span><span style="color:#183691;">' '</span><span style="color:#323232;">)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .endOfLine();
</span>

That seems like the best of both world approach to me.