Regex Crossword Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Regex Crossword

  I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the other Regex Crossword [0], it's shown up on HN several times [1][2] and has a fantastic user-submitted puzzle section (that includes the MIT Mystery Hunt puzzle [3]) and a puzzle builder. 0: https://regexcrossword.com/ 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=regexcrossword.com 3: https://regexcrossword.com/playerpuzzles/8cbea27f-c4c5-4d11-a509-6a622ba01107. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Ask HN: How did you learn Regex?

  The Regex Crossword was the first thing that made it click for me: https://regexcrossword.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• What are your regex tricks?

  I really liked Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl. He goes in depth on what they are (with a bit of FSA background) and how a regex engine works. It helps conceptualize what's going on and how to know what your specific regex library is doing. Does that matter all that much? Not necessarily, but it's good to know things like whether or not your regex can blow in time complexity due to back tracking or... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Textanalysistool.net

  The only good thing to come out of regular expressions is https://regexcrossword.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• RegEx Crossword

  I thought this crossword, where one can start learning regex step-by-step. A great app, though. https://regexcrossword.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• DNA Crossword

  I love the less maniacal version of this https://regexcrossword.com/. Really useful for anyone who wants to get a little better at regex without hating themselves. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Is regex as hard as it looks?

  I used to have to look up regexes every time I needed to use them, but I was able to learn them pretty quickly with O'Reilly's Mastering Regular Expressions. Highly recommend that book plus https://regexcrossword.com/ for practice interpreting other people's expressions. Source: about 2 years ago

• It is an expression

  Do these once a week and you'll never have to relearn it. Https://regexcrossword.com/. Source: about 2 years ago

• Is there a resource that provides daily Regex problems?

  Https://regexcrossword.com/ might be fun until you finish it, or my personal favorite Copy Editor a RegEx Puzzle Game. Source: over 2 years ago

• Just did some RegEx-ing

  Https://regexcrossword.com/ go through a few of these before you call yourself an expert :-). Source: over 2 years ago

• Best Websites For Coders

  Regex Crossword : A simple crossword game where clues are regex that must be matched. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• When you have a problem and solve it using RegEx, you end up with two problems

  Regex crosswords are quite fun and a good place to start in general. Source: over 2 years ago

• Matching an IP address using grep

  This one is a lot of fun and a good place to start: https://regexcrossword.com/. :). Source: over 2 years ago

• what are some jobs which you can write RegEx almost all day ?

  Maybe you can play https://regexcrossword.com/ competitively? Source: over 2 years ago

• How to regex

  What genuinely helped me understand regular expressions was going through the set of regex crosswords here, using regex101.com as a reference and to explain what each component of what I was doing does. Source: over 2 years ago

• My thoughts on regex

  You're not going to like https://regexcrossword.com/ then... Source: over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Does anyone here truly, know Regex?

  I only really learned it by having a problem to solve. You have to be careful with runtime costs, but I often use it to get machine readable info from logfiles. Also https://regexcrossword.com/ is pretty fun. Sometimes I just need to grab all public IPs from AWS stuff to whitelist them for something. With Windows powershell for example, although the regex here is crude and would match non-valid IPv4 adresses, it... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Finally tried my hand at regexes, I no longer have that hand.

  Every time I need to write a regex, I go to regex101 and write the regex. Then, I decide I enjoy regex and want to learn it to the point I don't need to refer to the syntax guides, so I head to https://regexcrossword.com because learning can be fun. Then, 5 mins later, I get frustrated, close all my tabs, and don't think about regex until the next time I need to write one. I have been repeating this pattern for... Source: over 2 years ago

• Regex resources

  I always liked Regex Crosswords as a way to sharpen my regex skills. It was much more fun than staring at cheatsheets (which I also did quite a bit!). I use other tools mentioned here already for day-to-day troubleshooting - regex101 being my go-to resource for that. Source: over 2 years ago

• Any simple educational programming games like RegexCrossword or Deadlock Empire that can be done in a small group?

  Regex crossword (https://regexcrossword.com/) was fun, may use it from time to time again. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Is there a Website/Book where I can practice Regular expressions problems?

  Regex Crossword should have a few problems for you. Source: almost 3 years ago