Hi Damian,
thank you for the example but I still think the few user interface
requirements I wrote are valid (because I found them while using rxrx). The
limitations I see are not a core limitation but the interface. rxrx is very
nice to use for educational purposes but becomes more difficult when used
for development.
While running rxrx, the need for interaction is greater than stepping in
the regexp; manipulating the regexp, the input, being able to bring back a
previous regexp, keeping information about the regexp run, all of it needs
needs some practical interface that I don't believe a simple wrapper script
can provide.
Sometimes the interaction with Regex::Debugger is for a new regexp and
sometimes for an old regexp deep inside so code, different contexts. In the
later it is not a clear cut how one wants to handle it. Just firing
Regexp::Debugg may be a solution but that means interaction. At other time
is the collection of all the strings run through a regex that one needs to
analyze, in that case the interactivity becomes a problem.
I'd make the interface, time to learn some readline and curses anyway, but
it felt, from our previous conversations, that you were on the way to do
that.
I understand that the times are busy, I have a little idea of what could
take your time, so I will gladly write another interface but when I do that
I like to do it in synch with the original developer, And that, of course,
only if the originator doesn't want/have time to do it.
Cheers, Nadim.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:38 PM, damian@conway.org via RT <
bug-Regexp-Debugger@rt.cpan.org> wrote:
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>
> Hi Nadim,
>
> I appreciate these various suggestiosn for improvements to rxrx.
>
> However, it does occur to me that many of them would be better answered
> by simply writinga small Perl script of the form:
>
> use Regexp::Debugger;
>
> my $REGEX = qr{
> my (??{'complex'}) re?ge?x (?&here)
>
> (?(DEFINE)
> (?<here> be dragons)
> )
> }x;
>
> for my $str (<DATA>) {
> $str =~ $REGEX;
> }
>
> __DATA__
> strings to test
> all placed here
> mycomplexrgxbedragons
> et cetera
>
> Then you could just edit the regex and/or the test strings within the
> file,
> and rerun it as many times as you needed to.
>
> All the best,
>
> Damian
>
>
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