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I would encourage anybody interested to try out the site's quiz. It starts out easily enough but eventually becomes extremely challenging.

I also really like the community submitted regexes. But, on that note, what's to prevent someone from submitting all of the quiz solutions to the 'community'? Are the submissions occasionally moderated?

I have appreciated this website for a while now. For those who don't know, Lindrian is also often active on #regex on freenode IRC, which is a great place to get feedback on regexes. (Or to just be told many times not to use regexes to parse HTML.)



Thank you for the kind words! I moderate it myself fromtime to time. I hope nobody does something stupid like that; they gain nothing by it.


Re the quiz, in the first answer response it says "Excellent! I guess you have some regex knowledge, so let's get started!". Perhaps you should also add "Click a task below to continue." as it took me a few moments to work out how to continue. I expected that perhaps the "did i get it right" button my change to "continue" or something.


Thats a great idea! I'll work something out.




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