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avereveard
on March 23, 2021
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Show HN: Regular expression compilation visualized
most of the crazy email regexes found here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/201323/how-to-validate-a...
fail to validate in the input field
_pvxk
on March 23, 2021
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Only regular expressions[0] can compile to FST's; Perl-style regexes aren't regular.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language
GrumpySloth
on March 23, 2021
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That's probably, because the regexes you linked to are Perl-flavoured regexes, whereas this website seems to use the "Unix Extended" variant of regex.
Cthulhu_
on March 23, 2021
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If you want crazy, you should look up RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags.
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