rx

Standalone version of Emacs' rx macro (by sulami)

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  • A portable, modern regular expression language
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2022
    I had a similar kind of idea for a long time, which I put into action a few weeks ago via a standalone transpiler of Emacs' rx macro to common regexp syntaxes.[0] I ended up getting interrupted and didn't completely finish it, but it generally works, though is probably riddled with edge cases.

    The basic idea of rx is to use S-expressions to describe regular expressions, and my elevator pitch would've been to embed rx invocations in shell scripts using $(syntax), the main use case being something like sed invocations.

    I still think it's a neat idea, and complex regular expressions tend to be hard to parse for humans.

    [0]: https://github.com/sulami/rx

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