Regex Lab .NET

Reviewed: Original Release (Nov 14, 2012)

corin93 — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:28:45 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - An excellent and helpful tool. Nice work!

New Post: Feature Idea: Consider only highlighted text (if any) as regex

CalvinDale2 — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:42:44 GMT

It would be quite useful if only a highlighted portion of the pattern text was considered as the regex pattern and the execute function would only use the highlighted segment. I realize that one can leave the highlighted portion and delete the rest of the pattern, press execute, then hit the undo button. But being able to quickly run a highlighted segment of a complicated pattern would be very helpful. Another idea would be to have a list of patterns with execute running against the selected list item (or if a portion is highlighted, against that portion).

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Reviewed: Original Release (Oct 04, 2011)

Daniel — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:21:03 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - More robust and less bloated than other similar tools. Great job!

Created Issue: Group[0] is Missing. [403]

nshifter — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:06:32 GMT

I tested the string minus the double quotes, "<abc><mno<xyz>>", found in the link below with the regular expression "^[^<>]*(((?'Open'<)[^<>]*)+((?'Close-Open'>)[^<>]*)+)*(?(Open)(?!))$". I see that the group[0] is missing. Also, it would be nice to include the caputres too.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bs2twtah.aspx#balancing_group_definition

Their output:
// The example displays the following output:
// Input: "<abc><mno<xyz>>"
// Match: "<abc><mno<xyz>>"
// Group 0: <abc><mno<xyz>>
// Capture 0: <abc><mno<xyz>>
// Group 1: <mno<xyz>>
// Capture 0: <abc>
// Capture 1: <mno<xyz>>
// Group 2: <xyz
// Capture 0: <abc
// Capture 1: <mno
// Capture 2: <xyz
// Group 3: >
// Capture 0: >
// Capture 1: >
// Capture 2: >
// Group 4:
// Group 5: mno<xyz>
// Capture 0: abc
// Capture 1: xyz
// Capture 2: mno<xyz>

Updated Wiki: Home

extrabacon — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:49:11 GMT

Project Description

Regex Lab .NET is a full-featured application for editing regular expressions. The application features a modern, highly functional UI allowing increased productivity when writing or debugging regular expression patterns.

Features

Simple, elegant UI
Supports all regex operations: matches, replacements and splits
Detailed match analysis with group breakdown
Syntax-highlighted editor with unlimited undo-redo buffer
Live highlighting of matches as text is typed
Regex Workbench pattern analysis
Save and load expressions
Generate code in C#, VB.NET and Javascript
Built-in RegexLib.com search engine
Built-in MSDN documentation browser
No 3rd party dependencies - just a single executable file

Screenshot

Next Version

I am also working on a new version which would consist of a full rewrite. Next version features planned so far:

Scintilla-based editors (using ScintillaNET project)
Ribbon UI with full regex elements and integrated documentation (using Windows Ribbon for WinForms project)
Pattern builder UI (inspired from RegexBuddy)
Rex integration for pattern exploration
Better pattern analysis presentation (analysis based on Regex Workbench)

Reviewed: Original Release (Apr 08, 2011)

jflegault — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:24:27 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - A good tool!

New Post: Blank Line Match in Single Line mode?

tlaqua — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:59:31 GMT

I envisioned a column to the left of the "text to match" (1-2 em wide) with glyphs or a match count or something like that (not sure if it would apply to multi-line match, maybe not). Think like the breakpoint column in VS, but less ugly (think resharper where they do cool stuff in the left column to highlight line status - that could have some cool application to multi-line matches).

Created Issue: No visual indication of zero-width matches [201]

extrabacon — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:49:07 GMT

Since matches are highlighted (a text range in the textbox), zero-width matches are not shown visually.

Updated Wiki: Home

extrabacon — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:47:24 GMT

Project Description

Features

Simple, elegant UI
Supports all regex operations: matches, replacements and splits
Detailed match analysis with group breakdown
Syntax highlighed editor with unlimited undo-redo buffer
Live highlighting of matches as text is typed
Regex Workbench pattern analysis
Save and reload expressions
Generate code in C#, VB.NET and Javascript
Built-in RegexLib.com search engine
Built-in MSDN documentation browser
No 3rd party dependencies - just a single executable file

Screenshot

Next Version

I am also working on a new version which would consist of a full rewrite. Next version features planned so far:

Scintilla-based editors (using ScintillaNET project)
Ribbon UI with full regex elements and integrated documentation (using Windows Ribbon for WinForms project)
Pattern builder UI (inspired from RegexBuddy)
Rex integration for pattern exploration
Better pattern analysis presentation (analysis based on Regex Workbench)

New Post: Blank Line Match in Single Line mode?

extrabacon — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:33:03 GMT

This is great feedback. Not sure how to fix it either ;)

I plan to use Scintilla-based editors in the next version instead of rich textboxes. Maybe we can add a visual glyph for zero-width matches.

New Post: Blank Line Match in Single Line mode?

tlaqua — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:36:39 GMT

If you set it to one match per line (ctrl+shift+L) and have a blank line that matches, theres no character to highlight on the line so the blank line doesn't get any attention... Not sure how to fix it really, Just thought i'd point it out. Maybe some sort of opaque arrow indicating a nonprintable match on the line or something? -

example pattern: ^(?!foo).*$

Text:

asdf
bar
foo

more random text

This is 4 matches, but only 3 lines have visual indication of a match

Reviewed: Original Release (Apr 07, 2011)

tlaqua — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:26:39 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - Nice. Did exactly what I needed. Keep up the good work!

Updated Wiki: Home

extrabacon — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:00:13 GMT

Project Description

Features

Simple, elegant UI
Supports all regex operations: matches, replacements and splits
Detailed match analysis with group breakdown
Syntax highlighed editor with unlimited undo-redo buffer
Live highlighting of matches as text is typed
Regex Workbench pattern analysis
Save and reload expressions
Generate code in C#, VB.NET and Javascript
Built-in RegexLib.com search engine
Built-in MSDN documentation browser
No 3rd party dependencies - just a single executable file

Screenshot

Updated Wiki: Home

extrabacon — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:36:12 GMT

Project Description

RegexLab .NET is a full-featured application for editing regular expressions. The application features a modern, highly functional UI allowing increased productivity when writing or debugging regular expression patterns.

Features

Simple, elegant UI
Supports all regex operations: matches, replacements and splits
Detailed match analysis with group breakdown
Syntax highlighed editor with unlimited undo-redo buffer
Live highlighting of matches as text is typed
Regex Workbench pattern analysis
Save and reload expressions
Generate code in C#, VB.NET and Javascript
Built-in RegexLib.com search engine
Built-in MSDN documentation browser

Screenshot

Released: Original Release (lug 26, 2010)

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:34:09 GMT

This is the original release of RegexLab .NET.

Updated Release: Original Release (Jul 26, 2010)

extrabacon — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:34:09 GMT

This is the original release of RegexLab .NET.

Updated Wiki: Home

extrabacon — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:58:26 GMT

Project Description

RegexLab .NET is a full-featured application for editing regular expressions. The application features a modern, highly functional UI allowing increased productivity when writing or debugging regular expression patterns.

Features

Simple, elegant UI
Supports all regex operations: matches, replacements and splits
Detailed match analysis with group breakdown
Syntax highlighed editor with unlimited undo-redo buffer
Live highlighting of matches as text is typed
Regex Workbench pattern analysis
Saving and reloading expressions
Generating code in C#, VB.NET and Javascript
Built-in RegexLib.com search engine
Built-in MSDN documentation browser

Screenshot

Updated Wiki: Home

extrabacon — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:52:52 GMT

Project Description

RegexLab .NET is a full-featured application for editing regular expressions. The application features a modern, highly functional UI allowing increased productivity when writing or debugging regular expression patterns.

Features

RegexLab .NET is a Windows Forms application for developing and debugging regular expressions. It uses the .NET regular expression engine.

Features include:

Supports all regex operations such as matches, replacements and splits
Multi-pane views allowing to edit the pattern, visualize matches and analyze the results within the same window
Syntax highlighed editor with unlimited undo-redo buffer
Highlighting of matches as text is typed
Regex Workbench pattern analysis
Saving and reloading expressions
Generating code in C#, VB.NET and Javascript
Built-in RegexLib.com search engine
Built-in MSDN documentation browser