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Copy Editor: A RegEx Puzzle

55% positive of 58 Steam reviews

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Released
2021
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam, Xbox / PC Game Pass

Made by Christopher Jarvis. Published by Cinq-Mars Media.

About the game

Copy Editor is an intricate puzzle game that teaches you Regular Expressions (RegEx), commonly used in computer science and language theory. Build complex rules that process and revise famous texts for your wacky and demanding publisher!

Tagged by players

  • Programming
  • Experimental
  • Hacking
  • Word Game
  • Level Editor
  • Puzzle
  • Simulation
  • Text-Based
  • Minimalist
  • Tutorial
  • Tactical
  • Comedy

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    Recommendation: Not Recommended I bought "Copy Editor" hoping to get better at practical, real-world Regex, but I have ended up incredibly frustrated by the game's artificial throttling. Instead of letting you solve text challenges using standard, elegant, and efficient Regex patterns, the game constantly locks basic syntax elements (like the * or ? quantifiers, or $1 backreferences in the replace field). While the…

    30 min played when written. 1 found it helpful.

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