Useful Regular Expression Test Tool
By admin on Oct 12, 2011 in Java, open source
QuickREx gives you a view in which you can enter test-texts and try regular expressions. The expressions are evaluated against the test-text on the fly, matches are highlighted and you can navigate between the matches. You can also navigate through groups within each match (if groups are defined in your regular expression).
Regular Expressions are edited either within the view or within a composition-dialog which offers the most useful building-blocks grouped in categories and accompanied by short explanations.
QuickREx also offers TAB-completion for regular expressions and conversion of regular expressions to Java-Strings (including e.g. proper escaping of the ubiquitous backslash). All TAB-completion suggestions as well as the corresponding help-text popups are customizable. They are defined in .xml-files distributed with the plug-in. These files can be changed to add additional hints, remove rarely used hints or change the descriptions. See here for details on how to customize TAB-completion.
QuickREx offers the most widely used implementations of Regular Expressions in the Java-world:
- JDK Regular Expressions (available since 1.4) – see java.sun.com
- Jakarta ORO Perl-style Regular Expressions (ORO-Version 2.0.8, supports Perl 5.003 Regular Expressions) – see jakarta.apache.org/oro/index.html
- Jakarta ORO Awk-style Regular Expressions (ORO-Version 2.0.8) – see jakarta.apache.org/oro/index.html
- JRegex Regular Expressions (Version 1.2_01, supports Perl 5.6 Regular Expressions) – see jregex.sourceforge.net/
- Jakarta-Regexp Regular Expressions (Version 1.4) – see jakarta.apache.org/regexp/index.html
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