Regular expressions Visual Filters for Unicode characters

[Marco]

Inspired by http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11478

[bdeshi]

[Enternal]

+1

[Marco]

Btw, I'm currently fixing some awful mistakes, will post a definitive version tomorrow.

[Marco]

Took me longer than I planned, but here it is. Still not 100% satisfied with the final handling of captions vs actual VF in case more options are selected, but that's a minor aspect and the whole thing works. Beware, certain filter are huge.

[Enternal]

This is pretty amazing actually. Not only that, the file size

[Marco]

[bdeshi]

The most amazing thing here is how Marco managed to write it without being hospitalized for severely traumatic headache.
I get those just by peering inside the code. Even with one eye closed.

[Marco]

Let's just say that it's an unusually rainy summer here, and I get bored pretty quickly
I have a bunch of files with Russian names and wanted a quick way to spot them. So I recalled what I did with Arabic and tried the same thing, but noticed that there are digraphs and other problematic stuff that prevent from creating an elegant and simple solution. Then I read the Holy Bible of regexes and found the \p{X} syntax - something cool to import in XY. The rest is history since XY regex engine has always some caveat to workaround.

[bdeshi]

Then I read the Holy Bible of regexes and found the \p{X} syntax

I got JG's RegexBuddy. At first I couldn't make the ^ or $ of the whole thing.
Sorry, can't resist!

[Marco]

[Papoulka]

At first I couldn't make ^ or $ of the whole thing.

(slightly edited for colloquial English).

An instant classic! Should take its place with the elegant "two kinds of people" binary joke. Thank you Sammay.

[Garonne]

Then I read the Holy Bible of regexes and found the \p{X} syntax

I got JG's RegexBuddy. At first I couldn't make the ^ or $ of the whole thing.
Sorry, can't resist!

*grin* Have some of JG's Tools myself (RegexBuddy and RegexMagic included.)