in reply to Regex, the jungle survival skill

Then, when you're ready to sink a couple dozen hours having "fun" with regexen: http://regex.alf.nu/. I remember using another good one of these (kinds of sites) but can't seem to find it again.

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Re^2: Regex, the jungle survival skill
by choroba (Cardinal) on Mar 10, 2016 at 16:37 UTC
    Wow! Before I got bored, I tried to play for a while: 
    Warmup (207)
Anchors (206)
Ranges (199)
Backrefs (201)
Abba (191)
A man, a plan (169)
Prime (256)
Four (199)
Order (194)
Triples (560)
Glob (348)
Balance (13)
Powers (0)
Long count (250)
Alphabetical (0)
Powers 2 (10)
You have 3003 points.

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    ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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Re^2: Regex, the jungle survival skill
by stevieb (Canon) on Mar 10, 2016 at 15:30 UTC

    That's an awesome little tool there :)

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Re^2: Regex, the jungle survival skill
by Discipulus (Canon) on Mar 16, 2016 at 07:56 UTC
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