http://wildwebweaving.com a celebration of languages, writing, and the Web Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:56:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://wildwebweaving.com/2008/01/22/regex-help/ http://wildwebweaving.com/2008/01/22/regex-help/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:25:24 +0000 Jon http://wildwebweaving.com/2008/01/22/regex-help/ An excellent tool for regex testing is Regex Coach by Edi Weitz in Germany.  It’s makes one of the most painful coding tasks a lot less odios, thanks to real-time color-coded highlighting of matches, and a simple, intuitive interface. It’s only limitations that I’ve discovered are in character support; strangely, considering its European origins, it doesn’t support the Euro symbol “€”. That’s not likely to be a major flaw for anyone checking the regex syntax, however, and regex is an indispensible aid for that.

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