Discussion on: How do you feel about regex?

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I think they are great. They don't work in all situations.

ultrapico.com/expresso.htm is for .Net and a great tool for creating regex expressions, it doesn't support all elements of regex. Am not a super genius on them but they are an essential element of development for me when handling information.

Here is an example of configuration from a translation file from my application which is an awesome DevOps Deployment application am hoping to market in future.

The configuration below is to either find a value or a regex expression in an input file (typically itself an application configuration file) to clean a development configuration file. Sounds complex, but a great way of translating source configuration into something generic for different environmental deployment.

Regexes provides more control, but aren't always the best approach.

inforhino.co.uk/beta/automation-an...

                        {"IsRegex": false, "FindValue" : "C:\\\\InfoRhino\\\\cms\\\\IRWebsite\\\\IRWebsiteCMS\\\\wwwroot\\\\ClientConfiguration\\\\TConfigType.json", "ReplacementValue" : "{TargetServerRoot}\\\\ClientConfiguration\\\\TConfigType.json"}
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                        {"IsRegex": false, "FindValue" : "C:\\\\InfoRhino\\\\cms\\\\Adverts", "ReplacementValue" : "{TargetServerRoot}\\\\Store\\\\Adverts"}
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                        {"IsRegex": false, "FindValue" : "C:\\\\InfoRhino\\\\cms\\\\IRWebsite\\\\IRWebsiteCMS\\\\wwwroot", "ReplacementValue" : "{TargetServerRoot}\\\\wwwroot"}
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                        {"IsRegex": false, "FindValue" : "content\\\\Cards", "ReplacementValue" : "Cards"}
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                        {"IsRegex": true, "FindValue" : "(?is-nx:(?<=\"CardDomainHeaderCaption\"\\:(\\s{0,1})\")([a-z0-9\\s\\,\\.]+))", "ReplacementValue" : "{CardDomainHeaderCaption}"}
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                        {"IsRegex": true, "FindValue" : "(?is-nx:(?<=\"CardDescription\"\\:(\\s{0,1})\")([a-z0-9\\s\\,\\.]+))", "ReplacementValue" : "{CardDescription}"}
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                        {"IsRegex": true, "FindValue" : "(?is-nx:(?<=\"CompanyName\"\\:(\\s{0,1})\")([a-z0-9\\s\\,\\.]+))", "ReplacementValue" : "{CompanyName}"}