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iHateRegex.io: a regex cheatsheet for the haters2 min read


iHateRegex 😈

Features 😎

Visual representation of regular expressions
Matched strings – the Testing area
Embed regular expression visualization on your sites
Regex code highlighting and validation
Regex description with markdown support
Playground page where you can create your own expression and link to it.
User login and save regex

Setup 🚀

Install yarn

Clone this repo

Install dependencies ⚙️

$ yarn install

Test on localhost 🛠

# serve with hot reload at localhost:3600
$ yarn dev

Build and Start nuxt server 🚀

# build for production and launch server
$ yarn build
$ yarn start

This project is built with Nuxt.js 🙌

For detailed explanation on how things work, check out Nuxt.js docs.

Contribute Regex 🙏

Contribute to this project and make this the largest collection of useful expressions 😍

You can also submit regex via this google form

To contribute:

Add your regex to /static/regex/data.json

Show sample JSON

{
“id”: username,
“title”: username,
“tagline”: match a username,
“description”: Alphanumeric string that may include _ and – having a length of 3 to 16 characters.,
“regex”: ^[a-z0-9_-]{3,15}$,
“flag”: gm,
“matchText”: [
lorem,
ipsum,
gr3at,
a,
ab,
abcd,
abcde,
john doe,
johnny,
abcdefghijklmnopqrst
],
“cheatRegex”: [
/^/,
/$/,
/[a-zA-Z0-9]/,
/(hello){1,3}/
],
“embedHeight”: 300,
“tags” : [name, slug]
},

Show JSON properties

Property
Definition

id
this is the slug and also the short name of the regex. cannot contain spaces and only contain url-safe characters

title
Title of the page.

tagline
Tagline

description
First line under the tagline and also the meta description

regex
The actual regex string

flag
regex flags associated with the expression. eg; g

matchText
Array(line by line) of strings to be included in the string matching are

cheatRegex
refer static/regex/cheatsheet.json and see what all cheats are relevent to this expression. (you can also add your own cheats into cheatsheet.json and refer to that)

embedHeight
Height in pixels of the regex visualization embed

tags
tags related to the expression (to be used later)

Create a markdown file in /static/regex/markdown/ named <regex-id>.md for longer description and explanation

<regex-id> is the id from data.json

That’s it 🙌 Go ahead and shoot a new pull request✨✨

Descriptions

There are 2 descriptions for each regex.

One is the description property inside /static/regex/data.json.

This is used for page meta description as well.
This is the first description

Second is a dedicated markdown file in /static/regex/markdown/<file>.md

This should explain how the expression works in detail.
This is the long description

Property
Definition
example

description property inside data.json
This should explain about what the target match is in a few lines. It should not contain any html or markdown
A username is a unique identifier given to accounts in websites and social media

dedicated markdown file
Explain about the expression and how it works
ip addresses are of the range 0.0.0.0 – 255.255.255.255. The expression matches the ….(more)

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