Regexr - a great tool for pattern match development

[BenBurch]

http://gskinner.com/RegExr/

 

[Leif Roar]

Eh. With support only for one rather narrow dialect of regular expressions its use is limited. The cases where you need a tool like this is usually the cases where differences between dialects matters.

 

[ddt]

Eh. With support only for one rather narrow dialect of regular expressions its use is limited. The cases where you need a tool like this is usually the cases where differences between dialects matters.

Having given lots of introductory Unix courses, which included regex material, I think there's a good market for people who need to learn the basics and get a feel for it.

I agree with you that it would be nice to have a regex testing tool that covers all dialects. They say they use the ActionScript 3 regexes. Did they also adopt the Perl regexes? They look quite familiar, and other languages (Java, Python) have adopted the Perl stuff, which I think was a smart move

 

[moopet]

For teaching, there's always http://www.regular-expressions.info/ which has a bunch of tools and tutorials.

But most of the time I find the best way to test a regex is to use it