Download and home page here: https://www.skytopia...om/software/wildgem/
Please see my latest post in this thread for v2.10 info!
OLDER INFO BELOW:Wildgem version 1.50 is a big update since the last version (1.32). For more information, see the previous thread on the topic
here.
Wildgem is a free (beer), portable, and ultra sugary wrapper for Regex. It takes all the juicy bits from Regex, but makes writing expressions much simpler by providing unique and memorable symbols to replace the sometimes arcane and easily forgotten syntax from pure Regex. The program is great for people who don't want to get into Regex, but who find the usual find/replace feature in many text editors or programming languages too limiting. Nevertheless, Regex experts will still appreciate the colour coding, lightning speed, large input/output areas, realtime updating as you type, and the ability to still write pure regex.
It has been featured over at
Ghacks,
Trishtech and also on Donation Coder's very own
Coding Snacks section.
Simple usage:
WildGem 2.10 Christmas 2022 release (updated from 2021's v1.5)Advanced usage:
WildGem 2.10 Christmas 2022 release (updated from 2021's v1.5)In this v1.50 update are some big new features:
- First a MAJOR bug fix which prevented many people from using it. I falsely assumed that everyone had the Arial Unicode MS font when in reality, this font is only distributed with Excel 2013 (and earlier?). As a result, the special Wildgem symbols wouldn't appear. In v1.50, alternative fonts are used as a fall back.
- Second new feature is the new "Optional" symbol which emulates the useful '?' from Regex. This was a much needed addition to Wildgem and now more or less completes the basic Regex feature set.
- Third new feature is the Load and Save project functions so you can easily continue from your earlier expressions that you built and edit them.
- Finally, the best new feature is the "Multiple line functions" which allows you to express multiple regex/Wildgem commands in one sweep. This is much nicer than trying to cram a bunch of Regex into a single line/command.
As always, .NET 4.0 framework is needed. This should come with Windows 10 by default however and is otherwise a simple download for earlier versions of Windows.
