Regular expression builders and tutors #

Windows
- Rad Software Regular Expression Designer - "Learn, develop and test Regular Expressions"
- The Regex Coach - "Experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively"
- RegEx Builder - "A small utility to help you build regular expressions"
- EasyPatterns - "Regular expressions for dummies"
- RegexBuddy - "Learn, create, understand, test, use and save regular expressions"
Mac OS X
- RegExhibit - "Shows you what your regular expressions match as you type on a sample text you provide"
- Reggy - "Open-source OS X regular expression tester/viewer"
Platform-independent (and my favorite)
- txt2regex - "A regular expression wizard that converts human sentences to regex." It is a single, self-contained bash script - just download and run.

Wikipedia lists an assortment of regular expression apps, including many web-based offerings.

/misc | Mar 28, 2009