Human2Regex

Purpose

Generate regular expressions from natural language.

Instead of a convoluted mess of symbols like /([\w\.=\-]*\w+)/g why not

using global matching
create a group
match 0+ characters or "." or "=" or "-"
match 1+ words

Which would you rather modify or debug?

You can then use your regex in your language of choice, with Human2Regex validating your regex for you.

Why use Human2Regex?

- Human readable
- Easier to prototype and modify when compared to regex
- Easier to debug than raw text or even color coded regex
- "Human Speak" may contain comments
- Multiple platforms' dialects/quirks supported
- Human2Regex will minimize your final regex
- "Human Speak" can be used by non-technical QA to verify your program's output

Webpage

Human2Regex is hosted on github pages at https://human2regex.com

Tutorial

The language tutorial can be found at https://human2regex.com/tutorial.html

API

Human2Regex is available as an embeddable API.

The API reference is available here

Usage (API)

1) Install

npm i human2regex

2) Read the API docs

Usage (This repo)

1) Prebuild

npm install

2) Build

npm run build

3) Run

point web browser to: docs/index.html

4) Test

npm t

Todo

- Add more regex options such as subroutines, ~~conditions, and lookahead/behind~~
- Fix error messages (They sometimes point to the wrong location, off by 1 errors, etc)
- Add more useful lex/parse errors (What even is an EarlyExitException?)
- ~~Use a different/better static site generation method~~