Is there Perl's YAPE::Regex::Explain alternative to python?
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Is there Perl's YAPE::Regex::Explain alternative to python?
For example, which could do following regex
\w+=\d+|\w+='[^']+'
to explanations like this
NODE EXPLANATION
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\w+ word characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _) (1 or
more times (matching the most amount
possible))
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= '='
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\d+ digits (0-9) (1 or more times (matching
the most amount possible))
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| OR
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\w+ word characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _) (1 or
more times (matching the most amount
possible))
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=' '=\''
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[^']+ any character except: ''' (1 or more times
(matching the most amount possible))
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' '\''
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