I wasn't saying you shouldn't go to the python meet up I was saying how I work through regular expressions.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 6:35 PM Lewit, Douglas <<a href="mailto:d-lewit@neiu.edu">d-lewit@neiu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">Hey Joshua,</font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Those are all good ideas, but sometimes it's fun to get ideas and examples from other programmers. That way I can "kill" two birds with one stone: 1) Learn Python, and 2) Meet some great new friends! </font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Joshua Herman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zitterbewegung@gmail.com" target="_blank">zitterbewegung@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The way I try to program regexs is half the time I google the desired result and use that since it may have been tested before and just use it. The other times I would basically create test cases in a tool that Carl mentioned and I generally have the regex examples cheat sheet open.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:03 PM sheila miguez <<a href="mailto:shekay@pobox.com" target="_blank">shekay@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Carl Karsten <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carl@personnelware.com" target="_blank">carl@personnelware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div>Here is a nice UI for experimenting <br><div><div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://regexr.com" target="_blank">http://regexr.com</a></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">neat<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I usually end up using a tool like that if I can't figure out why my expression isn't working as expected.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">oh and for the python part of this, when I have a particularly hairy expression, I like the re.VERBOSE option so I can do multiline definitions with comments.<br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:shekay@pobox.com" target="_blank">shekay@pobox.com</a></div></div>
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