Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Essential tools or Websites to help you understand, test and generate regular expressions

Hello there,

Recently, I was working on a project that requires me to search through bunch of text and identify some matched patterns within the text, this is what "regex" is good at. So I thought of finding a tool that will ease my way through the project and fortunately, there are many of such tools on the internet.

I wrote this post just to highlight and share with you some of the regex tools I have tested. Just in case you didn't know what regex is here is a quick intro....

RegEx written in full as "Regular Expression" is a pattern that consist of rules used to match a certain set of strings. Regular Expressions are an essential part of any programmer’s toolkit. They can be very handy when you need to identify, replace or modify text, words, patterns or characters.

RegEx is a concept that is found in any programming language. The syntax of regular expressions is the same for all programming and script languages.
Below, you will find tools that are primarily associated with a programming language while others are generic to all languages.

Here is the list:-


  • http://pythex.org
  • http://regexpal.com/
  • https://regex101.com
  • http://www.regextester.com
  • http://regexr.com
  • https://www.regexbuddy.com
  • http://regular-expressions.mobi
  • http://regexlib.com
  • https://regexone.com
  • http://www.regexter.com/
  • http://www.rubular.com
  • http://kodos.sourceforge.net
  • http://www.txt2re.com
  • http://buildregex.com
  • http://www.regexe.com
  • http://www.regextester.com
  • http://www.phpliveregex.com
  • http://regexstorm.net





Useful Tutorials:

1- What are the best resources for learning RegEx?
2- Essential Guide To Regular Expressions: Tools and Tutorials
3- Regular Expressions: 30 Useful Tools and Resources


Thanks for reading

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