I've read MJD's paper on Using (?{print}) for debugging, but it seems imprudent to enable use re qw(eval) in the context of executing user regexes. Since I'm not certain that I could sanitize the regex well enough to feel good about re 'eval', I'll have to pass on that technique.

That Tk snippet was interesting. As for Re: validate a form field with regexp?, I could see allowing someone to use English to enter a regex, and then see what it looks like in "indistinguishable from line noise" format. I'll give that some thought.

I thought my code prevented zero-length regexes, but not zero-length targets. I'll look into it and get that fixed. In fact, I should probably allow zero-length regexes too, but (?:) is essentially the same thing.

Thanks for your input.

Update:After looking at Your failed match, I am not sure that there's an issue. It seems to be correctly stating "No Match!", as (\b\w+) shouldn't match against an empty string. I could be misunderstanding.

The linking feature was an afterthought, and I'm already glad I added it. I see that as being useful.


Dave

In reply to Re^2: The Perl Regex Tester by davido
in thread The Perl Regex Tester by davido

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