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🔍💪 Regular Expressions for Regular Folk — A visual, example-based introduction to RegEx [BETA]

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shreyasminocha·May 2, 2020

Yep! Sorry, I broke that late last night. I've fixed it with https://github.com/shreyasminocha/regex-for-regular-folk/com.... It was fairly unintuitive for someone unfamiliar with the source, so no worries :D

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appleflaxen·May 1, 2020

Hey this is great! I noticed that in the "Escapes" chapter, the "Next" link at the bottom of the page goes back to the introduction when it should go to "Groups". I poked around in your repo to try and submit a pull request, but I can't tell where the edit needs to go; the meta.json file seems to have an array with the right chapter headings which was my guess about the problem. Anyway, there is a typo. Sorry I can't be more helpful when you've put together such a great resource. https://github.com/shreyasminocha/regex-for-regular-folk/blo...

In Show HN: RegEx for Regular Folk – A visual, example-based introduction

shreyasminocha·May 1, 2020

> is there a simple way to get this on one a single page and make it easier to print? That's on my TODO! - https://github.com/shreyasminocha/regex-for-regular-folk/iss... - https://github.com/shreyasminocha/regex-for-regular-folk/iss... I was having some trouble with wkhtmltopdf, but I'll try to figure this out ASAP.

In Show HN: RegEx for Regular Folk – A visual, example-based introduction