Links to Infos about Regular Expressions

[AbteriX]

Some interesting sides about reg ex, maybe it's needful for some users ?

==   Regular Expression HOWTO A.M. Kuchling

==   Perl Regular Expression Tutorial

==   A nice one sheet overview about the syntax (PDF file)

==   http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/unix/regex.html

==   http://regular-expressions.info/reference.html

==   http://www.regxlib.com/Default.aspx

==   blogging community devoted to the topic of regular expressions

==   Starmerj's Perl RegExp Crib Sheet

==   Regular Expression for beginners

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==   Reguläre Ausdrücke in The Bat!     auf Deutsch

==   nicht wissenschaftlicher Workshop für Regular Expressions

[dajo]

Regular expressions rock my world.  (OK I'm a geek)

The O'Reilly book, "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey E. F. Freidl is a great way to learn about this powerful matching language, and it's actually an entertaining read.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/

[justice]

Great set of links, I'd like to learn about it as the usual method (experimentation) doesn't really cut it with regex.

[lanux128]

nice collection of links, AbteriX. bookmarking this thread.

[blackcat]

is there freeware tool or online tool to help learning or testing regex? something like regexbuddy but free

[mouser]

DC Member Allen created a site where you can run and test regular expressions online: http://rereplace.com/

Free alternatives to Regex Buddy (which is a fantastic program and top of its class): http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=577.0

[tinjaw]

is there freeware tool or online tool to help learning or testing regex? something like regexbuddy but free

online
http://www.quanetic.com/regex.php
http://www.fileformat.info/tool/regex.htm
http://www.regextester.com/

free offline
http://tools.osherove.com/CoolTools/Regulator/tabid/185/Default.aspx

[yksyks]

Regex Coach

The Regex Coach is free for private or non-commercial use.

[justice]

The Regulator The Regulator is an advanced Regular expressions testing tool, featuring syntax highlighting and web-service integration with Regexlib.com's database of online regular expressions. See more info at http://regulator.sourceforge.net

The Regulator is an advanced, free regular expressions testing and learning tool written by Roy Osherove. It allows you to build and verify a regular expression against any text input, file or web, and displays matching, splitting or replacement results within an easy to understand, hierarchical tree.

[trishjo]

Here is a really cool tutorial (video) and cheatsheet for learning regular expressions:

http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2007/regular_expressions_tutorial

This was a tremendous help for me when I started out trying to learn how to use regexes (for use when programming in ruby), and since then I have found more and more use for them.

The editor e ( http://e-texteditor.com ), that is used in the tutorial, is probably what has helped me most keeping my regex ability up-to-date and in use daily. It has a cool way of live highlighting what your regex matches in the text as you type it, that really helps you out when you try to use regexes while editing (kind of like a realtime regexbuddy that is always there when you need it).

[cranioscopical]

(Posting here, despite a hiatus in the thread, as this topic is easy to find for anyone looking for regex help.)

Smashing Magazine has gathered quite a useful collection of items and links about regex's here

[widgewunner]

Speaking of Regular Expressions... Jan Goyvaerts, Regex-Guru and creator of RegexBuddy, EditPad Pro and PowerGrep, and keeper of http://www.regular-expressions.info/ website, has published a brand new book: Regular Expressions Cookbook through the good folks at O'Reilly. It is now freshly hot off the press (released just a couple days ago - my pre-ordered Amazon copy is currently on a UPS truck somewhere in the Midwest on its way to my house.)

If you want to buy it, you can do Jan a favor by ordering through Amazon using special links as he describes in a post on his private forum:

Regular Expression Cookbook is now available for pre-order.  If you click on the Amazon links in my blog post at http://www.regexguru.com/2009/01/regular-expression-cookbook-available-for-pre-order/ Amazon will pay me an affiliate commission, which will pretty much double the slice I get from what you pay for the book.

Although I've already read Jeffrey Friedl's masterpiece: "Mastering Regular Expressions - 3rd Edition", which is the definitive guide (the SlashDot review gave is a score of 11 out of 10), I have become a regex junkie and devour everything I can find on the subject. I'm hoping that Jan's new book will be as good as everything else he has created. His company is very well named indeed: Just Great Software.

[tinjaw]

my pre-ordered Amazon copy is currently on a UPS truck somewhere in the Midwest on its way to my house.

Oh! Oh! Oh! Then mine must be too!