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Improving the Library

I've been spending some time the past several days working on a new page of the site, the .NET Regex Library. I wanted to set the groundwork for this section of the site so that it may grow into something substantial. So I borrowed some ideas from StackOverflow by incorporating a rating system. And then I added the ability to add comments as well. At some point it's going to require a search engine, and for that I already have some ideas from another recent project. The idea then is that the order of the search results will be based of votes and relevance, hopefully making it much easier to find what you're looking for. The same search engine will make its way into the Regex Hero tester itself.

Anyway, allow me to back up a bit. The regular expressions in the library were all created within Regex Hero. As such they have been tested with the .NET regex engine, which is kind of cool. On top of that, anyone can contribute to this library, which is very cool. You must create a log in if you haven't already. And then you can save an expression inside Regex Hero with "include in public library" checked. It's as simple as that.
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