Match What You Want - EasyPattern Helper
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EasyPattern Helper is the
perfect tool for
designing and testing regular expressions that match what YOU want. EP
Helper continuously applies the pattern to your test string as
you type - so you see matches immediately, preventing
mistakes on production data.
You can use your tested pattern with
thousands of tools that support perl-style patterns. Patterns can also
be saved and re-loaded.
Supported Patterns
EP Helper fully supports perl-style regular expressions, and grep, egrep and
fgrep regex.
EP Helper also supports EasyPatterns (which can be converted
to perl regex) - read more below.
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Easy Pattern Helper's screen (Click to enlarge)
EasyPatterns - Patterns that Humans Can
Read and Understand!
EasyPattern is an English-like text pattern matching
language that humans can actually read and understand!
EasyPatterns make parsing a US phone number as easy as
:
[ PhoneNumber ]
or if you prefer the long way:
[ optional punctuation, 3 digits, punctuation, 3 digits, punctuation, 4 digits ]
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(The equivalent perl-style regular expression is
[[:punct:]]*[[:digit:]]{3}[[:punct:]][[:digit:]]{3}[[:punct:]][[:digit:]]{4}
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EasyPatterns can be converted to perl patterns for use in thousands of other
programs.
Read more about EasyPatterns
Awards
WindFile.com,
Jul 2005
Byte-Flow.com, Jul 2005
FileEdge.com, Jun 2005
Jun 2005
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