write regex without google

Write regex no internet*

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If you can't write a regex without Google, the only person you're hurting is yourself. A hard requirement of any editor I use is regex search capability and groups in my replace string. It's so incredibly powerful. Same with string checks and manipulation, individual string operations can be really slow and take a lot of code.

Much agreed @Neotelos

I do that all day. Only when i forget the negative lookbehind syntax phrasing again.

@darksideplease yeah, that one gets me too. Although lookbehind isn't supported in JS. 🙁

Easy, I have regexr.com memorized. I really only use it as a reference, using the "cheat sheet" panel on the side.

I'd suggest avoiding regular-expressions.info, which unfortunately has a tendency to come up high on searches for anything to do with regex. That site IMO fails at both being a reference and also at being an effective tutorial. It's like expertsexchange, I automatically know not to even bother looking at those results.

@QoolQuy2000 ++1, that's a new one for me. The reference is amazingly simple and direct!

@QoolQuy2000 i used that site some times. it is dense but not very thorough. Look at the about page: the owner describes himself as expert on regular expressions.

For those that have access to the web, checkout regex101.com

Brilliant application for testing and getting explanations for regexes

No offense, but regex isn't that hard as it looks..

But if I need to search for a regress solution, I go to DuckDuckGo and type in the magic words "regex cheat sheet".

I had a problem that required regex. And now I've got two problems.

@Neotelos regex101.com is another good one.

I write them by heart.

Achievement unlocked.

I love regex. It was confusing at first. A lot of swear words left my mouth while I was learning it... But now I can't imagine working without it. :)

@BuckFitches this would do nothing in most find utilies. You mean .*

Which dialect though? Remember there's different dialects of regex. What's valid in one engine might not work in another...

/^((?!google).)*$/

Regex that matches a string that does not contain google.

Regex without google.

Had to use google to look up how to do negative lookaheads.

@tytho it probably doesn't work

@Jappe https://regex101.com/r/8hllIb/1 give it a try

@tytho regex101 rules em all.

DDG "regex cheat sheet" 😁

I suck at them :D

I can do some simple find and replace stuff without documentation but I don't know all of it off the top of my head.