My first response on reading this was to think: if you want to just "point
and click", then you're in the wrong forum....
Seriously, although I can't claim to be an expert with regular expressions,
what little I know amounts to one of the most useful skills I've acquired.
Go for it! It's well worth the effort.
Chris.
On 27/03/2008, Adrian Bridgett <adrian@???> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 14:40:24 +0000 (+0000), Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> > Hello penguins,
> >
> > does anybody know a site where one could put and text some regular
> > expressions without squeezing one's brain?
>
>
> regexp's aren't difficult, really this is something that a person can
> do and a computer can't do. there are places which will let you
> _test_ regexps, but expecting the computer to generate them is not
> much short of saying "can the computer program for me".
>
>
> > Customers are calling me asking to create regex to filter their mail
> > messages out but I am too lazy to study Perl or regex, I wonder if there
> > is any such tool.
>
>
> You don't need to learn perl, although most regexps are "perl
> compatible" to some degree (basically extra stuff you can use).
>
> Really, just go and learn it - it'll be very useful.
>
> Adrian
>
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