regal
Royally reified regular expressions (by lambdaisland)
xregexp
Extended JavaScript regular expressions (by slevithan)
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| regal | xregexp | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 3 | |
| 324 | 3,235 | |
| 2.2% | - | |
| 1.5 | 0.0 | |
| 4 days ago | 5 months ago | |
| Clojure | JavaScript | |
| Mozilla Public License 2.0 | MIT License |
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regal
Posts with mentions or reviews of regal.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-15.
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RegEx gotchas? Looking for clarity/verification.
In Clojure this would be lambdaisland's regal
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Melody - A language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more easily readable and maintainable
Another take on the same idea. https://github.com/lambdaisland/regal
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luna is a Domain specific language that translates to regex. It's an attempt to make regex more readable.
regal might fit your style more then.
- Show HN: Luna is a Clojure Domain specific language that translates to regex
xregexp
Posts with mentions or reviews of xregexp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-14.
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Regular Expression library to recommend?
Still, that hasn't stopped libraries appearing with extra features. I believe the most popular is XRegExp, but it's been a while since I checked.
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Show HN: Luna is a Clojure Domain specific language that translates to regex
Completely agree. For js, xregexp [1] is a really nice long standing library that brings in these kind of enhancements and makes regular expressions a lot more readable.
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October 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
+ code literals for embedding other compiled languages, with built-in support for TypeScript/JavaScript (passthrough) and regular expressions (using XRegExp)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing regal and xregexp you can also consider the following projects:
melody - Melody is a language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more readable and maintainable
ShnooTalk - ShnooTalk is a new programming language
logical_verification_2020 - Companion files for Logical Verification 2020–2021 at VU Amsterdam
Dictu - Dictu is a high-level dynamically typed, multi-paradigm, interpreted programming language.
luna - A DSL that translates to regex
cish - Go + Generics + Sum Types
re-ext - Sometimes you want to compose regexs.