Regex Storm

[lonekorean]

Hi LJ. I'm back for one post only to link my new website.

It's a .NET regular expressions tester called Regex Storm. If you're a programmer, this may be useful to you. If you're not, then you're probably wondering what the hell a "regular expression" is. That's alright.

There's also a searchable regex reference page that I think is pretty neat

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[anonymous]

Recently I happened to need to fix a regex I use to crawl an external site so that I can make RSS feeds for it (they don't provide any). So I checked this out =).

Pretty nice, I've usually used RegexDesigner.NET myself. But having a web based one is cool. I remember making a really crappy one once without any bells and whistles that was just an ugly asp.net form with drag/dropped controls. This one looks slicker than others for sure.

When you show matches in context, it would help to alternate colors between matches. This helps differentiate one match from the next, since they might not even have characters between them.

One thing I find myself doing is copy/pasting the regex back into a .NET app to test it out there as well. I have to escape the " quotes though to not mess up the string in vb.net though. You could throw in a "get code" option which gives you a properly formatted string for different languages or even a code snippet like Dim oRegex as new Regex("[asdf]*?", ...options).

-Andrew O.

Re: Feedback

[lonekorean]

Sup Andrew.

The matches in context should each have a border around them so you can see where one ends and the other begins, even if they're adjacent. If you're using FF, Chrome, or Safari, then they should also have rounded corners, so it's easier to tell the "bubbles" apart. If you're not seeing this, let me know what browser and version you're using. Or maybe you're just saying that alternating colors would help on top of this, which is valid. :)

The "get code" bit is a good idea. I'll add it to the list.

Thanks!