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However, this is more of a debugger when you already have some idea how to write a regex to match a particular string. Are there any complete regex builders where you can select components (such as greedy or not, positive or not) when you can't remember the specific syntax?
Pretty good :) But it feels a little sluggish. I'm used to my regex tools displaying feedback with seemingly no delay.
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FWIW I find your light design inspired by rubular to be visually superior. The community feature is great however I assumed from the name that it would just be a forum, perhaps a different label would help show its utility - maybe "favourite regex"?
Glad you like the design :). Hmm, something like "Regex library" maybe? Unsure of how to word it properly.
1. The delay between updating the regex/test text and seeing the result is a little long. I find regex tools much more useful if I can see the results change as I'm typing.
2. I did a simple regex with two capture groups and the second backreference came up red in the matches box. As soon as I see red, I assume there's an error. Might be worth removing those "danger colours" from the list.
Other than that, looking good!
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I'm not sure I agree it should be default; it's not expected behavior. Either way, there are too many flags to add them all to the quickref, I figured I would just show the most common.
Right now, even café is not matched by \w{4} . If this is what you call expected …
Something that would be very useful, but that I haven't seen in any of these web-based regex tools, is to list the contents of capturing groups. If you added that, yours would be my goto regex tester.