Tag: REGEX

Finding a really good free text replacement/expander app for Windows isn't an easy task. Yes, AutoHotKey is an excellent program, but it's not a good fit for people who don't enjoy hacking plain text configuration files. Breevy is an extremely nice GUI app, but it's shareware. Auspex -- developed as part of NANY 2011 at Donationcoder -- might be the free program we've been waiting for. The ...

Rejex is a very handy little site for building and testing regular expressions on the fly. It's composed of four simple text boxes and a very informative cheat sheet (not shown above, but after the jump). You feed your text into the "Test String" box (the middle one), and then your expression into the top box, and immediately see the matches in the bottom box. Here I am searching for instances of ...

RegExr is a web tool for testing those widely used (yet often confusing) regular expressions. Regular expressions (regex) are search patterns that help you find strings of text in e-mail messages, text files, etc. Things like Usenet search tools, Google Code search, and Open Office support regex, and regex versatility far surpasses simple wildcard searches like *.exe. For instance, a regular ...