A GPT 3.5 powered tool for generating regex

Pretty neat, and it definitely can generate some complex regex.. But I have to say I don&#x27;t trust it!<p>When I add a regex to something, I pretty much always also add a bunch of unit test cases for it, and I request the same if I see one in a PR. It&#x27;s much easier to just see a bunch of test cases that help validate than it, and frankly, half the time when I write my own cases I think of situations that could be better handled.<p>Human- or GPT-generated doesn&#x27;t really matter IMHO; it still needs tests.<p>Interestingly, chatGPT is pretty good at generating test cases for regex. It would be really cool to see that functionality integrated to this tool.

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ChatGPT is also very useful for just explaining what a regexp you already have actually does.

This is what is gives to select names: &#x2F;^[A-Z][a-z]+(?: [A-Z][a-z]+)*$&#x2F;<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure quite a lot of people&#x27;s names wouldn&#x27;t be accepted by that. It helps if you add &quot;even weird and foreign names&quot;, but who knows if that&#x27;s actually enough to capture everything.

Have you tried GPT-4? I suspect it would do better for these types of characters.

I think I broke it pretty badly asking for &quot;A ll(1) grammar validator&quot; as it answered `^(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:[A-Z]|[a-z])(?:[A-Z]|[a-z]|[0-9])<i>):(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:[A-Z]|[a-z])(?:[A-Z]|[a-z]|[0-9])</i>):)+(?:(?:(?<p>lol<p>id: chatcmpl-6zxdwNH3hW7DuZqnCkx4Ukx9rXiuA token usage: 367 date: 1680225296

&gt; &#x2F;^(?:\&#x2F;(?:\\\&#x2F;|[^\&#x2F;\n])+\&#x2F;[gimuy]{0,5}|\\[^\n]|[^\n\\\&#x2F;])+$&#x2F;<p>What would you say was the query for this?

Finally, something useful to me. If it worked. My experience was spotty in that regard.

Is it time to revive HTML regex meme yet?

I once had a problem I solved with regex, now I have two problems.

If you&#x27;re using a regex it&#x27;s a smell that there is a better tool for what you need to do. A ton of if statements is a much more readable way of writing code than regex.