jRegex – A visual Regular Expressions Tool

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Phil   1 comment

On the 1st of June it is (inter)national Regular Expressions day founded 4 years ago by the man himself, Ben Nadel. To celebrate this awesome formal language that I use on a pretty much daily basis I decided to polish up a visual tool I put together for my Development Environment and share it with the rest of the world. jRegex is born!

I didn’t plan on putting this up so soon, and in some areas it shows. Support for IE8 < isn't there yet, it works but you'll loose the formatting from your original piece of text. I have tested in IE9, FF4 and 5, Chrome and Safari but if you find anything buggy please ping me a comment on this post to let me know. I'll get a project up on Github tomorrow and start building it up with backend support, probably Perl, to get the full functionality of Regex, currently it is using JavaScript on the client.

I hope you get some use out of it and enjoy International Regular Expressions Day 2011!