Adam Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 http://www.strfriend.com/ A Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/137681-heck-of-a-regex-tool/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILMV Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Thanks Adam! That's genius! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/137681-heck-of-a-regex-tool/#findComment-719585 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngreenwood6 Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Everytime I go there it wants me to download something and it isn't a document or anything? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/137681-heck-of-a-regex-tool/#findComment-719605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted December 19, 2008 Author Share Posted December 19, 2008 Hmm that's odd? Never had a problem like that... What browser are you using? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/137681-heck-of-a-regex-tool/#findComment-719606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngreenwood6 Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Internet explorer 6. I keep tryingto install 7 but it is telling me something has been installed and needs to be rebooted and I have rebooted 5 times so I just gave up on 7. I will try firefox. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/137681-heck-of-a-regex-tool/#findComment-719612 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngreenwood6 Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 It works in firefox. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/137681-heck-of-a-regex-tool/#findComment-719617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted December 19, 2008 Author Share Posted December 19, 2008 Playing with it a little more there are a few features of reg ex 'not yet implemented' .. if they can work those out though, be' top notch! A Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/137681-heck-of-a-regex-tool/#findComment-719621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamez Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 It works in firefox. change it to everything Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/137681-heck-of-a-regex-tool/#findComment-719625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 tbh I'm not impressed. I mean, yeah wonderful, if I happen to come across a pattern and wasn't sure what it did, I could put it in there and see what it does, but to me that's not really all that useful. And that's assuming I could read the 'diagram' output. Needs a 'legend' to tell you what the different symbols and lines mean. If you already know what they mean, chances are, you already knew what the pattern did to begin with. Informative? Sure...maybe (again, the output is almost as archaic as the input...). Useful? No. It's a start. If ability to put in subject and it show you what the pattern matches inside the text (within the context of the text as a whole), we'd be getting to something useful. Output is visually appealing, I'll give it that. But overall, it's like seeing a tray full of fruit, walking over to pick an apple off it, and finding out it's just a plastic display. And I'd rather it all be dumped on the same page, not separate pages. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/137681-heck-of-a-regex-tool/#findComment-719650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted December 21, 2008 Author Share Posted December 21, 2008 Well yeah, that's a fair point. Thought the diagram, after you take 5 minutes to understand, isn't really all that complicated! I'm fairly new to regular expressions and find the tool useful to validate and check that it's what I'm trying to achieve. If there are any errors or problems it would help me identify the problem. I find it difficult - as I'm sure many others do - to visualize a complicated, long expression. Perhaps this is more useful to learners? A Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/137681-heck-of-a-regex-tool/#findComment-720696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Theres a tool available for GNU Linux, I think it's called KDE RegEx Editor, that's really useful. I mainly use it to test my patterns against a bunch of strings. I think it might have been ported to Windows too, actually. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/137681-heck-of-a-regex-tool/#findComment-720744 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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