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  1. Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:04:47 PM by Jim Welch
    Thanks! Nice tool. Maybe you could incorporate some nice ajax callbacks to search regexlib's web service? (http://regexlib.com/WebServices.asmx) Then it'll be nearly perfect. :)
  2. Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:16:13 PM by Derek
    That's a great idea, Jim -- I'll look into it.
  3. Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:07:25 PM by jhunter
    Have you considered releasing the source for this so someone can create a windows forms version easily?
  4. Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:17:20 AM by Fabrice
    jhunter, there are already several Windows Forms tools for testing regular expressions. See http://sharptoolbox.com/categories/regular-expressions
  5. Thursday, September 27, 2007 8:48:46 PM by bkhvihvbijhb
    I don't think you can call something "better" without supplying some sort of test results. What is yours better than?
  6. Thursday, October 04, 2007 5:15:39 PM by Aleksey Malishkin
    This is the greatest thing in the world! THANKS!!!!
  7. Friday, January 25, 2008 2:06:56 PM by Hue Holleran
    Really useful, Derek - the best around. Could I request one addition, please: could you add the group name to the output please? ie. pattern:@"--\s*\[\s*TABLE\s*\(\s*(?<table>.*?)\s*\)\s*\]", text:"-- [ TaBle ( bob ) ]" - I'd like to see the captured group name - would you consider doing this, please?
  8. Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:04:00 PM by Poor Richard
    Works great. Just would like to see the results without having to scrool down (at least on my screen).

    Thanks. -- Richard
  9. Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:08:39 PM by Poor Richard
    Oops! My mistake. You just need to scroll down once and it all stays on screen.

    Great! -- Rik

    PS: Nice if you either underline the matches or made them bold or red.
  10. Thursday, February 21, 2008 9:35:43 PM by LeeK
    Just perfect Derek - it's bookmarked for me now. Thanks 1,000,000.
  11. Monday, March 24, 2008 11:49:51 PM by Anonymous
    Hi, great regexp tester, thanks! I was trying to figure out why my matches weren't working, then I realized I was cutting and pasting text from Notepad into the Pattern section which includes a newline. Since my input didn't include a newline, the match failed.
  12. Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:04:57 PM by sky
    multiline and singleline are mutually exclusive. they have nothing to do with how many lines are in the target. multiline off set the eol and bol anchors to match eof and bof. singleline on lets . match all characters including /n

    good luck.
  13. Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:05:32 PM by sky
    OOPS - meant NOT mutually exclusive
  14. Monday, May 05, 2008 7:52:48 PM by Yakko Warner
    Echoing sky's comment. I actually had a situation that was solved (thanks to a MS MVP in an MSDN forum) by setting both SingleLine *and* MultiLine at the same time. So it does have its purpose.
  15. Friday, May 30, 2008 10:24:34 AM by Rob
    been looking for one of these for ages. Really nice work.
  16. Friday, June 13, 2008 7:10:24 PM by sahil
    I was testing with the regex class in .net 2.0 using c# and my regex and source would not give me a match. This tool does give me a match. Any Ideas?
    Great tool though, i must add.
  17. Tuesday, July 22, 2008 3:24:27 PM by Walter
    Thanks for this one. Saved my day!
  18. Sunday, August 03, 2008 5:18:48 PM by Alexander BH
    Thanks for this great tool. I use it all the time! I just wanted to let you know!
  19. Friday, August 15, 2008 10:33:48 AM by Emm
    This helped me a lot! Much appreciated!
  20. Saturday, August 16, 2008 7:53:54 AM by James
    Super handy! Thanks very much!
  21. Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:03:33 PM by Robert S.
    Well done!
  22. Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:53:20 AM by nyk_is_syk
    helped me when mattered. tx god bless u all.
  23. Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4:29:43 PM by Mike
    Thank You
  24. Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:29:57 PM by Daniel
    This is a great tool, and I really appreciate your taking the time to put it together. I noticed that there seems to be a problem displaying captured groups. Try this pattern:

    ^((?<entry>[^|]*)\|)*$

    with this string:

    This is one part.|This is another part.|

    This expression correctly captures both parts (I checked), but it displays the two groups as "This is another part.|" and "This is another part." when the captures are actually "This is one part." and "This is another part."

    Thanks again. This is an incredibly helpful tool!
  25. Monday, January 12, 2009 5:41:27 PM by Marcelo
    Very useful!
  26. Friday, January 16, 2009 12:45:08 AM by jeff
    Thank you! I use this a lot.
  27. Friday, January 16, 2009 1:12:08 PM by Marco
    Very useful :)
  28. Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:58:01 PM by Matt
    @Daniel ^
    careful with your captures. The normal parenthesis are also captures even though they are not named.
  29. Monday, February 02, 2009 5:43:39 PM by Alan
    Very useful, thanks.
  30. Monday, February 02, 2009 6:43:56 PM by John
    Good job; thanks. Have you considered implementing non-greedy options? Or am I mistaken?
  31. Monday, February 02, 2009 7:39:34 PM by John
    Nevermind; my mistake.
  32. Tuesday, February 03, 2009 4:17:45 PM by Bill
    I love this app. Much nicer than the other online apps I used. Thank you much.
  33. Thursday, February 05, 2009 9:39:14 AM by Sireesh Jindal
    Hey, Is there any limitation in .Net regex on the input string?
    I have a 438 line input string, which I have to test against a Regex. But, in VS2005, everything seems to hang when I try to match the string with the Regex.
  34. Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:35:48 PM by ADovervik
    If Visual Studio appears to hang for more than a second or two, you probably want to debug the regexp.

    I have tested (in VS2005) to run a fairly complex pattern with 36 capturing groups, and 358 non-capturing used for manging sections of the Regex, against a 300 000 lines text file. A couple of seconds delay, but no hang.
  35. Thursday, February 12, 2009 5:07:01 PM by LarryK
    This rocks ... thanks!!
  36. Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:52:34 PM by Feng
    It is wonderful, save time, save life! Thanks a lot!
  37. Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:02:05 PM by Jared Saindon
    FINALLY someone took the time to make a decent online regex tester. Your contribution to the programming world is much appreciated. You are the man!
  38. Tuesday, March 03, 2009 3:11:16 PM by BryanS
    AWESOME! Thank you, I've bookmarked this for validating my regex expressions.
  39. Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:36:11 PM by Matt
    Fantastic tool, thanks!
  40. Tuesday, March 31, 2009 6:43:39 PM by Digant
    Awesome tool, use it so often. One thing I'd love to see is named capturing
  41. Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:30:53 PM by Rajesh Pillai
    Good work.
  42. Thursday, May 07, 2009 12:38:18 PM by Klinkby
    I use the tool frequently. May I suggest a final touch? Print out group name for each capture. Thanks again!
  43. Sunday, May 31, 2009 12:42:54 PM by captcha
    test
  44. Saturday, June 06, 2009 6:10:54 PM by casey
    fantastic tool I like it much better than the clunky regulator
  45. Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:56:59 PM by tertz
    nice tool!
  46. Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:18:54 PM by Alexander P
    Very practical tool! Thanks a lot
  47. Saturday, June 20, 2009 6:47:03 AM by Szczawik.PSq
    If I could recommend something: don't show additional quotation marks around matches as they may be confused as a part of a string (or simply show them i.e. in light gray colour).

    I usually don't bookmark any pages, but this one is worth it. What a nice and useful tool! Thanks!
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