Discussion on: Designing the ultimate (INCLUSIVE) writing tool. [Part 1 - a WYSIWYG in 745 *Bytes*! 😱]

[Alex Lohr]

No, the one that is used for my version:

var re = /(\B\/(?:\\.|[^\n/*])(?:\\.|[^\n/])*\/[gim]*)|("(?:\\.|\\\r*\n|[^\n"])*"|'(?:\\.|\\\r*\n|[^\n'])*')|(\/\/[^\n]*\n|\/\*[\x00-\xff\u00\uffff]*?\*\/)|\b(abstract|boolean|break|byte|case|catch|char|class|const|continue|debugger|default|delete|do|double|else|enum|export|extends|false|final|finally|float|for|function|goto|if|implements|import|in|instanceof|int|interface|long|native|new|null|package|private|protected|public|return|short|static|super|switch|synchronized|this|throw|throws|transient|true|try|typeof|var|void|volatile|while|with)\b|\b(Array|Boolean|Date|Function|Math|Number|Object|RegExp|String|document|window|arguments)\b|(\d[\d\.eE]*)|([\x28-\x2b\x2d\x3a-\x3f\x5b\x5d\x5e\x7b-\x7e]+|\x2f|\.(?=\D))/g;

Yours is an example of readability by comparison. 😁

[GrahamTheDev]

Yeah but I couldn’t work out how to also do different colours, unless I used match groups I suppose and increment the group in the loop...

Probably could be done but obviously the idea is this is a base for something useful so I don’t think I will even try it! 😜🤣

[Alex Lohr]

That's exactly what I did.

[GrahamTheDev]

Ah yes, I see it now, being a non code golfer I didn't get that was a counter you had implemented!