The JSVerbalExpressions has been very cool to me at first sight few years ago - It does what Regular Expression does, but is *much human-friendly* . The Good news is, today I came across a Delphi implementation, by Tim, from Jena, Germany!

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The JSVerbalExpressions has been very cool to me at first sight few years ago - It does what Regular Expression does, but is *much human-friendly* . The Good news is, today I came across a Delphi implementation, by Tim, from Jena, Germany!

Usage example:
var
LobjVerbalExpression : TVerbalExpression;
begin
LobjVerbalExpression := TVerbalExpression.Create
.StartOfLine()
._Then('http')
.Maybe('s')
._Then('://')
.Maybe('www.')
.anythingBut(' ')
.endOfLine();

ListBox1.Items.Add(LobjVerbalExpression.AsString);

if LobjVerbalExpression.Test('https://github.com') then
ListBox1.Items.Add('valid url')
else
ListBox1.Items.Add('invalid url');

end;
https://github.com/enko/DelphiVerbalExpressions

Comments

  1. Edwin YipAugust 30, 2016 at 2:18 AM

    If you have used RegEx before, you know what I mean :)
    PS, Here is the original JavaScript implementation: https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions

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  2. Pavel NovákAugust 30, 2016 at 2:28 AM

    /sub

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  3. Stéphane WierzbickiAugust 30, 2016 at 4:44 AM

    Yes, that's so much easier than regex... thank you for the share

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  4. David HeffernanAugust 30, 2016 at 5:42 AM

    I'll take regex every time. They really should be using &Then rather than _Then too

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  5. Rafael DipoldAugust 30, 2016 at 5:43 AM

    Great! But, I think you could declare &Then() and &Or() instead of _Then() and _Or()

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