c/opensource@lemmy.ml · trevor@lemmy.ml · 17 Sep 2026 21:20

Announcing list2regexp - Generate regular expressions to match lists of strings

Codeberg.org list2regexp Generate regular expressions to match lists of strings

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@Courantdair@jlai.lu · 17 Sep 2026

I think the list of strings with pipes between each element would be shorter than this huge unreadable blob

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- @trevor@lemmy.mlOP · 17 Sep 2026
  
  Being pretty or short is not a goal of this project, nor do I see the value in such goals.
  
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  - @helix@feddit.org · 6d ago
    
    Pretty and short probably also have better performance.
    
    Did you manually come up with a prettier regex to compare against?
    
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