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Path of Exile Vendor Search tool
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Feature: Reverse Regex #171

Closed MDLeide closed 2 months ago

MDLeide commented 2 months ago

I'd love to see a feature where the user inputs a regex and the site highlights all the mods that it picks up. I have a few regex strings saved that I cannot decipher :)

veiset commented 2 months ago

This is currently supported, all you have to do is paste your regex in to the modifier search field:

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It doesn't support quant/qual or any of the checkboxes. Let me know if this works for you.

MDLeide commented 2 months ago

Oh wild. I kept trying to put it in the output, which in retrospect is a little silly. I guess I was tunnel visioned on that and didn't see the watermark on the textbox (TIP: HERE'S THE THING YOU ARE ABOUT TO OPEN AN ISSUE ABOUT).

Yes, this works great, thanks for the response, and thanks for the site.

Off-topic, but, do you think you could squeeze two more characters in by eliminating the quotes and using periods in place of spaces? That's how I write mine, and I haven't had any problems, but there could be some unforeseen issues. I've been thinking about this for ages.

veiset commented 2 months ago

No worries!

Yeah, there are a few issues with using periods instead of spaces and qoutes.

An example:

Text:

hey uthere
youtube

"y u" would only match the first one, while y.u would match both.

I am currently attempting to write a solver for a generalized version of this problem, but it might take some time. The idea is that you can have regexes such as a.+b but at the moment the algorithm uses around 15 minutes to generate the lookup-table for this. Its insanely slow.