'exactly' instead of 'find' ?

[colllin]

Just a thought. Haven't even used this library yet but I'm looking forward to it :+1:

[ryan-endacott]

Thanks! I hope you like it!

I like exactly. I was also considering next. Thoughts?

[colllin]

next is another good one. a great synonym for then from the original library. isn't next a reserved word in ruby though?

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Ryan Endacott [email protected]:

Thanks! I hope you like it!

I like exactly. I was also considering next. Thoughts?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/ryan-endacott/verbal_expressions/issues/2#issuecomment-22147525 .

[ryan-endacott]

Oh, oops. You're correct. It's reserved. Maybe match? I think I probably prefer exactly though.

[colllin]

match is cool too. Or maybe expect? then_exactly ? Now that you mention match, I think that's my favorite.

If I'm trying to create the regex /http/, when I read exactly 'http', that makes me picture a regex more like /^http$/, you know? As in "This string is exactly 'http'." Compared to "This string matches 'http'."

Anyway, I'm bowing out at this point. Changing the syntax is not a decision to take lightly. I suppose you could do both -- keep find as an alias for match so no one gets upset.

Thanks for your effort putting this together!

[ryan-endacott]

Of course, when implementing match I ran into another error. Because of the way the DSL is implemented, it overrides the match method on the regex object itself. Know of any way to reorganize it where that wouldn't be an issue? Maybe I can reassign match to call super.match after initialization.

I do plan on keeping the alias though.

You're welcome, I'm glad you like it! Thanks for your help!

[b08x]

Then >

" Its meaning is very similar to that of following or later, but it has a more formal tone to it and may imply that something not only follows but in some way grows out of or is otherwise closely connected with what precedes.

• subsequently
• consequently

This happens after that.

This happens subsequent to that

First do this. After do that.

Do this. Do that.

Suppose or Should might work if the results would always be uncertain in some way:

If this is true, do this. If this works out, it should do that.

If this happens, then this is suppose to happen If this happens, suppose this

"your choice in such cases would depend upon whether you want to stress the order of events or the causal relationship between one event and another.

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It would help if you were able to describe in sentence form what is happening here:

add("(?:[^#{value}]*)")

Also, standardize might syntactically work better than sanitize. You're not really cleaning anything as much as you are making it works regardless of environment.