June 17, 2009 at 07:13RegExr: Online Regular Expression Testing Tool
Recently discovered a great service for testing and editing regular expressions online. RegExr is a simple interface that is not overloaded for input of regular expressions and their convenient checking.
Externally, the service looks like this.
To download the service, you must have Flash Player 9 or higher installed. The current version of RegExr is 0.3b .
Expressions are entered in the upper line, and text [for verification] in the lower field. As soon as the expression matches the specified characters, the text automatically highlighted, according to the entered expressions. As soon as the expression changes, the backlight also changes. You can also not change the expression, but change the text.
On the right is the sidebar with explanations of the expressions (which can be added from there), as well as examples (for example, checking email). In this way, you can even learn regular expressions by trial and error. Immediately, the author provided for the addition of his expressions and descriptions to them, but so far they do not work properly (hang).
According to the author himself, RegExr is not as powerful as RegExBuddy , but it is online and free . There is also a desktop version of the application for Mac or Windows. The application is an Air technology product.
More information about the program and service can be found here .
UPD: According to zeroedThe program also works fine on Linux .
Externally, the service looks like this.
To download the service, you must have Flash Player 9 or higher installed. The current version of RegExr is 0.3b .
Expressions are entered in the upper line, and text [for verification] in the lower field. As soon as the expression matches the specified characters, the text automatically highlighted, according to the entered expressions. As soon as the expression changes, the backlight also changes. You can also not change the expression, but change the text.
On the right is the sidebar with explanations of the expressions (which can be added from there), as well as examples (for example, checking email). In this way, you can even learn regular expressions by trial and error. Immediately, the author provided for the addition of his expressions and descriptions to them, but so far they do not work properly (hang).
According to the author himself, RegExr is not as powerful as RegExBuddy , but it is online and free . There is also a desktop version of the application for Mac or Windows. The application is an Air technology product.
More information about the program and service can be found here .
UPD: According to zeroedThe program also works fine on Linux .