Smilies & emojis

[nogweii]

A really common use case for regexes I find online is trying to find & replace all of the emojis in a free form text document with images. However, the quality of the regex varies each time, most often running into issues replacing smiley-like text in places it shouldn't be.

For instance, given a series of smiles: :), :(, and :/. One issue is :/ and full URLs. The regex shouldn't match on http://github.com but many do.

[vladimir-tikhonov]

done #7

[nogweii]

Very cool, thanks!