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Regular Expressions 101 – regex visualiser and debugger (regex101.com)
18 points by rgs 12 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments




It might not have as many features as the posted tool, but I've always really enjoyed visualizing the finite state diagrams produced by https://www.debuggex.com/

I expected LLMs would make this skill irrelevant faster than almost anything else in the tech world.

The main value of regexes is expressing a fairly convoluted ask in a fairly concise form. While I’d expect LLMs to eventually generate regexes correctly, I’m not sure how you’re going to prompt the thing in a way that’s not harder than writing regexes directly.

Excluding the classic problems where you shouldn’t be using a regex in the first place (parsing email, names, html, etc) and the “draw the rest of the owl” where it simply solves everything from the input alone


I think regex is going to be one of the last things LLMs really master, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.



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