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                An interesting regex — Parsing template-maker strings for Mad Libs
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    An interesting regex — Parsing out template constructor strings for Mad Libs

/\[.*?\]|[a-z0-9']+|[^a-z0-9'\[\]\s]+|\s+/ig
In September 2022, I was part of a small team that built Mad Libs, an application that reimagines the popular word game in a browser-based forum/blog context. Among other features, the app includes:

A template maker, in which a user inputs a constructor string that is converted to a Mad Libs template that other users can then fill in