News

27-Dec-2006

The project web site is finally up and running.

26-Nov-2006

Initial version (1.0) released.

Overview

Regex-Demon is short for "Regular Expression Demonstrator". This program was developed to help those who are in the process of learning Perl's regular expressions, as well as programmers who would like to test their regular expressions before writing them into their code. I have also found it useful in debugging patterns I have written that don't behave as I intended.

Its use is pretty straightforward. Type in your pattern (in the top text-entry box), and then add the text you want to test it against in the lower box. NOTE: Perl encloses patterns in forward slashes, the regex-demon DOES NOT.

Example:
Perl: 
    /^\(?\d{3}\)?.*/
Regex-demon:
    ^\(?\d{3}\)?.*

Both patterns will match 3 digits at the beginning of a line, surrounded by optional parenthesis; like the first part of a phone number.

Currently, regex-demon handles only Perl's regular expression syntax. However, I have found that JavaScript uses a very similar syntax. A future release may include syntaxes for other languages.

Features

No feature details available at this time.

Requirements

The regex-demon requires the Tk module. If you're using ActiveState Perl on Win32, it may have already been installed. If you are on a Linux system, I recommend trying to get it via your system's package manager.

FAQ

No FAQ available at this time.

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