Making regex authoring easier to read and maintain
I’m spiking ideas on how to make my regular expressions easier to read and maintain for the dev who comes after me (that could be myself in 3 months, meaning I will surely have forgotten everything about how that crazy regex worked).
I’m aware and wary of fluent API alternatives to building regular expressions which IMO hinder readability more than anything. They are just too verbose.
So here’s a progression of options that I’m thinking of. I’d like to get your feedback on what makes for a readable pattern and how much you care about extension method pollution (since patterns are all strings, extension methods would need to “hang” there):...