I’ve worked on censoring the most vulgar swear words with regular expressions today. Why regexes? Well, in Finnish and other Uralic languages like Hungarian and Estonian words are inflected. A single swear word could have maybe thousands of mutations, which is why it is awesome to have the ability t…

Discourse Regexes (Watched Words) :mega: To use regular expressions (regex) in watched words you must first turn on the watched words regular expressions site setting. Discourse by default matches all uppercase and lowercase forms of a word entered as a regular expression. That is, thread Thi…

You can read about it in the source code .

Reading that, I don’t see much about them except to see that they are Javascript regular expressions. (I would have assumed Ruby without that link.) So a Javascript reference would be in order. [Bild] RegExp - JavaScript | MDN The RegExp object is used for matching text with a pattern. …

[Bild] rizka: which regex flavor Discourse uses. AFAIK, Ruby and Postgres support POSiX Class: Regexp (Ruby 2.2.0) Class : Regexp - Ruby 2.2.0 [Bild] 9.7. Pattern Matching 9.7. Pattern Matching # 9.7.1. LIKE 9.7.2. SIMILAR TO Regula…

Cool, thank you for your replies all. I’ll look into them and return if I still can’t figure it out.

[Bild] justin: Test your regex statements on non-production instances before going live. If you want to get more serious (or silly) about this kind of thing, you can introduce formal test cases. For example, I’ve put @justin ’s über-excellent example onto regex101.com : https://regex101.com/r/4…

How to use Discourse regexes with watched words?

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Mittineague (Mittineague) 25. April 2017 um 00:29 4

AFAIK, Ruby and Postgres support POSiX

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