EasyPattern Helper
Match What You Want - EasyPattern Helper
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Buy Download Tour 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 PatternsEP 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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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, |
(The equivalent perl-style regular expression is
[[:punct:]]*[[:digit:]]{3}[[:punct:]][[:digit:]]{3}[[:punct:]][[:digit:]]{4} ) |
EasyPatterns can be converted to perl patterns for use in thousands of other programs.
Awards
WindFile.com,
Jul 2005
Byte-Flow.com, Jul 2005
FileEdge.com, Jun 2005
Jun 2005
Jun 2005
Other Links
- New to patterns? Try the EasyPatterns primer
- The complete EasyPatterns reference
- EasyPattern Engine - embed it in your application to make pattern matching easier
- Applications using EasyPatterns
- Developers! - use the EasyPattern Engine in your own applications, royalty free!