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Regular Expressions Tools & Resources for Developers

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  • by Gavin
  • In DEVELOPMENT · RESOURCES
  • — 22 Aug, 2014

Regular expressions are patterns used to match character combinations in strings. In JavaScript, regular expressions are also objects. These patterns are used with the exec and test methods of RegExp, and with the match, replace, search, and split methods ofString.

Regular expressions are considered as hard to learn but in reality they are not that much complicated to learn, you can easily learn them without much efforts.

In this article we have gathered some Best Regular Expressions Tools & Resources that would help you to easily learn and become master of it.

We hope you would love to check these Regular Expressions Tools and Resources to enhance your development skills. If you are aware of any hands-down tutorials and apps for RegEx, let us know by posting comment for the community to enjoy and learn from. Have Fun !!

1. RegExr

regexr
RegExr is an online tool for editing and testing Regular Expressions (RegExp / RegEx). It provides a simple interface to enter RegEx expressions, and visualize matches in real-time editable source text. It also provides a handy RegExp snippet sidebar with descriptions and usage examples to make it easier to learn Regular Expressions through trial and error. RegExr is built with Flex 3, and uses ActionScript 3′s built in RegExp engine. It isn’t as powerful as a product like RegExBuddy, but it has the advantage of being online and free. You are able to save your patterns locally, and to share patterns on a searchable community database of regular expressions as well.

2. RegExplained

RegExplained
t is a simple playground which highlights the matched text from a regex in real-time. It is a project of Lea Verou and also supported with a talk (I suggest you watch it to start learning regular expressions quickly).

3. Txt2re

txt2re
A tool that helps extracting any given text visually by clicking on items in a filtered text. It allows you to see preview snippets for a large set of programming languages, and it’s very simple and works for all kinds of inputs, include those of HTML and other similar scripting languages.

4. RegexPlanet

regexplanet
RegexPlanet enables you to test expressions using any of the multiple languages. The expressions created can be shared and, a cookbook features handy regular expressions.

5. Rubular

rubular
Rubular is a Ruby-based regular expression editor. It’s a handy way to test regular expressions as you write them. ou can enter strings and RegEx itself to learn how-to capture the data you need, there is also a tiny reference at the bottom, making it that much easier.

6. RexV

rex v
A real-time regex tester with support for PHP, JavaScript, Python, Nodejs and Perl.

7. RegexPal

regexpal
RegexPal is built with JavaScript, this is a simple regular expressions tester.

8. RegEx Guide by Mozilla

Regex Guide by Mozilla
It is one of the most simplified regular expression guides on the net its quite easy to understand and covers almost every important stuff.

9. Debuggex

debuggex
A web app for testing regular expressions. It has support for JavaScript, Python an PCRE.

10. Scriptualr

scriptular
Scriptular is a javascript regular expression editor. Inspired by Rubular it gives you a simple way to test javascript regular expressions as you write them.

11. Refiddle

refiddle
Refiddle is easy to use open source tool that has reasonably sized directory of pre-submitted samples of regular expressions, which are tagged according to the community members.

12. PHP Live Regex

PHP Live Regex
Its is a regular expression tester for PHP developers. The tool can also generate unique URLs so that you can share the code with others or keep working on later.

13. XRegExp

xregexp
XRegExp is an open source (MIT License) JavaScript library that provides augmented and extensible regular expressions. You get new syntax, flags, and methods beyond what browsers support natively. XRegExp is also a regex utility belt with tools to make your client-side grepping simpler and more powerful, while freeing you from worrying about pesky cross-browser inconsistencies and the dubious lastIndex property.

14. Regex Crossword

regex crossword
A one-of-a-kind resource for improving your regex skills. It is similar to the classic puzzles where you are given a regular expression to guess the right letter for the field.

15. JS Verbal Expressions

js verbal expressions
VerbalExpressions is a JavaScript library that helps to construct difficult regular expressions.

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