Common Regular Expressions Made Simple

I am reminded of VerbalExpressions <a href="https://github.com/VerbalExpressions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;VerbalExpressions</a> which hit HN in early August. Interested in learning more about regex&#x27;s I did some work on a Racket port.<p>That project shows there are two tracks by which to tackle the problem that regex syntax is incoherent gobbledygook. The first is creating a regex version of pho with 5000 functions and mix and match names piece by piece. The second is to rename regex symbols to something that is easier for humans to parse.

Unless I&#x27;m not understanding my way around the project, this seems to be a very small library of regular expressions. As one would expect, Perl&#x27;s offerings blow anything else out of the water: <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~abigail/Regexp-Common-2013031301/lib/Regexp/Common.pm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.cpan.org&#x2F;~abigail&#x2F;Regexp-Common-2013031301&#x2F;lib...</a>.

I&#x27;m gonna be <i>That Guy</i> and say that the e-mail regex isn&#x27;t upto scratch and probably should not be included.<p>generally, very good.

Isnt there an i18n extension built on lib ICU in python , like Intl extension in PHP ?<p><a href="http://site.icu-project.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;site.icu-project.org&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;m sure there are better alternatives than just regexp to validate numbers, emails ,etc ...