regex

Transifex already supported validating translations of old styled Python strings, e.g., [sourcecode language=”python”] “A sample string with a %(keyword)s argument.” % {‘keyword’: ‘key word’} [/sourcecode] The validation is done by checking if all the positional and keyword arguments are present in the translation string and the translation string does not contain any extra argument which is not in the source string. You can have a look at the validator code here....

Today, I am going to discuss my attempts to parse c style comments. For example, //This is a comment<br></br> ** /***This is also<br></br> *** a comment ***/ ** Initially, I came up with a regex for /…/ style comments : <strong>/*.**/</strong> Well, the above expression was not able to parse comments like: <br></br> /*** This is a comment ***/<br></br>``` I googled and came across [http://ostermiller.org/findcomment.html](http://ostermiller.org/findcomment.html) where I found the regex: `<strong>/*(....