Converting existing regex pattern to VerbalExpressions?

[giorgio79]

Hello,

Can I feed a regex pattern to verbal expressions, and get back the verbal express representation?

[jehna]

Not at the time

[jehna]

@ahmadalibaloch regarding tot the duplicate issue: Ihis is an interesting issue to tackle. How would you think you'd convert the existing regular expressions? I'd think of couple of ways:

• Command-line tool
• Web interface

What do you think?

[vielmetti]

I'd like to see a command line tool to do this, and if you have an existing tool that parses regexes then recasting them into verbal expressions should be straightforward.

[SignpostMarv]

re-use this?

A few assumptions:

• I'm going to hope we can that the tree generator in regexper-static can be adapted to build a VerbalExpressions call stack that reproduces the same output.
• I think we're talking about chaining methods, not instantiating objects? i.e. outputting a series of javascript calls instead of just parsing the regex to pre-populate the properties.
• If we're going with chaining methods, then for unit testing purposes I would think it's important to stress that if we take a VebalExpressions chain, convert it to a regex string, then back to a VerbalExpressions chain, producing an identical call stack is not required, only that the regex output is identical.

[ahmadalibaloch]

For my existing files I would like to have a command line tool or a plug-in for VS, notepad++ or other IDEs to replace exisitng RegExpressions to VerbalExpressions. If we can have a web interface for quick solution that is also good.

[aadrian]

It's not important how such a tool would look: web based, console based, desktop based, etc.

It's important that exists in first place, as most users having existing regular expressions won't convert them to VerbalExpressions unless there's such a tool that can do the job.

[jonaspm]

Hello,

Can I feed a regex pattern to verbal expressions, and get back the verbal express representation?

That would be nice, indeed.

[shreyasminocha]

Post-v2, this should be relatively easy with a library like regexp-tree since we could just map AST nodes to library methods.

[yuenhy]

+1 to this, want to be able to switch between a formula for power users and a verbal expression for every day use

[jehna]

Have you tried using ChatGPT? 3.5 seems to know the context pretty well, maybe 4 would be even better, especially if you could give the documentation as context 🤔

[yuenhy]

was kinda hoping to switch between the two programmatically but yes chatgpt seems to work