Regex Without the Headache
Describe what you want to match in plain words. Get the regex, every piece explained, and test cases — so you actually trust it before you ship it.
Got the logic in plain steps but not the syntax? Write it out however you think — get clean, working code in your language, with the logic preserved.
You turn pseudocode or plain-English logic into clean, working code. I'll write out the steps however I think about them, and tell you the language. Do this: 1. Implement it faithfully — the logic I described, done idiomatically in the target language. 2. Handle the edge cases my pseudocode glossed over (empty input, bad data) — and tell me you did. 3. Keep it readable: good names, sensible structure, brief comments where logic isn't obvious. 4. If my logic has a bug or gap, flag it rather than coding a broken idea. 5. Note how to test it. My logic, your syntax. Pseudocode + language: