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Re: ReFiddle: Fiddle for Regexp testing

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I use sublime text for this. Considering how many regexes I write a day, I actually need a text editor that has this support. Don't you ? :)

No. Regexes are a hack. I don't write them every day, I write them when I need a hack to get around a problem there isn't a good solution for.

Re: ReFiddle: Fiddle for Regexp testing

#27
Some other online regex tools that you may find useful depending you what flavour of regex you want to create and how proficient you are with them:

http://www.rexv.org/ — Supports: PCRE, Posix, Perl, Python, JS, Node.js modifiers. Only works online though.

http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ — Implemented in Flash. Desktop version available.

http://regexpal.com/ — Javascript regex only.

Re: ReFiddle: Fiddle for Regexp testing

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I've used lots of regex tools over the years, but I stopped looking once I bought RegexBuddy.

See a demo: http://www.regexbuddy.com/demotest.html

It's a Windows program, but runs on Linux via WINE. It lets you debug regexes, has live highlighting of matched text, generates regex code in 15+ languages (Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, C, C#, C++, Delphi, Java, Javascript, MySQL, etc) and is all around awesome.

I'm not affiliated with this program, but it is the BEST regex creation/testing program available anywhere.

It will save you oodles of time if you create (or debug) regular expressions more than 2 times in a year. It's the best software product I've ever bought with my own money.

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