putting comments into regex strings

[bobkoure]

The regex engine NBP uses appears to understand regex comments just fine.
These look like (?#all this is a comment)
This might be useful if you keep a text file of useful regex strings as you can keep the "what it does" explanation right in the string itself - and, if you put this comment at the beginning of the line it will show up in the "past strings used" in the drop-down window - so for example:

(?#hide pdb and lib)^(?!.*pdb)(?!.*lib)

[Smite]

Cool idea. Thanks.

[bobkoure]

Lately, I've been finding comments more useful in filters - lots easier to read a comment than re-figure-out what the filter does.