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RegExr: A website for interactive regex prototyping with syntax highlighting

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Re: RegExr: A website for interactive regex prototyping with syntax highlighting

#21

I've been programming for about two decades. I had composed three regexes before my first coffee and before seeing this article this morning. My problem: I still don't have a good mnemonic to remember how magic differs grep, egrep, vim, awk, Perl, Python, etc. If that this site had modes and flavoured cheat-sheets I would live there!

I use RegexBuddy, it has a shitload of different modes.

Re: RegExr: A website for interactive regex prototyping with syntax highlighting

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Sites like this is great and all, but I wish they included some commonly used regexes. Like a list of 'good' regexs to validate phone numbers, emails and other common stuff. It would actually be pretty cool to have a site like this except you could add the regex to a list, and then people could upvote the regexe depending on the quality of it.

...and I just checked the community link. Way to go :-)

There's also http://www.regxlib.com/

Re: RegExr: A website for interactive regex prototyping with syntax highlighting

#27
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Nice work :) Looks like this tool puts the emphasis on the pedagogical aspect. For development, the most fantastic tool that I know of in this space is debuggex. Here is an example with roman numbers: https://www.debuggex.com/r/Xqlv3QcAuw_EgPSM

I really love this one!

Re: RegExr: A website for interactive regex prototyping with syntax highlighting

#29
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Nice work :) Looks like this tool puts the emphasis on the pedagogical aspect. For development, the most fantastic tool that I know of in this space is debuggex. Here is an example with roman numbers: https://www.debuggex.com/r/Xqlv3QcAuw_EgPSM

Dude, that is way cool. This is like one step away from FSMs.
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