One of the few things I’ve been missing since moving to OS X fulltime was a decent interactive regex builder app. The one in Eclipse is great, but Eclipse is about as anti-Mac as it gets. Others that I’ve used such as regex buddy and regular expression editor don’t run on the Mac.
Well here’s a widget that does the trick quite well, though interactive highlighting of the target string would be even better.
UPDATE: thanks for mentioning Reggy, this is the one I use regularly now, check it out:
April 11th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
There is a nice Cocoa app that I very much like to use: Reggy
http://code.google.com/p/reggy/
April 12th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
And here is a slightly (IMO) better one: http://python.net/~gherman/RegexPlor.html
April 13th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Another not specific MacOSX but usefull tool : http://txt2regex.sf.net
“^txt2regex$ is a Regular Expression ‘wizard’, all written with bash2 builtins, that converts human sentences to regexes.”
Builds regex for a large variety of programs, like awk, emacs, grep, perl, php, procmail, python, sed and vim.