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pokercurious · Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 48

I'm no AHK genius, but I've put together a little script for playing with regular expressions that may be useful to some people.

Basically, I got tired of creating a new AHK script every time I wanted to test a regex, so I wrote this.

A picture's worth a thousand words, so:

Just start entering in the regex and the search text - it updates as you type.

ALT-C copies the AHK code text for the current RegExMatch or RegExReplace to the clipboard.

And that's it! Quick, dirty, and simple. Any constructive feedback, suggestions, etc. are certainly welcomed and appreciated.

Oh, almost forgot - credit where credit is due. I use Lexikos' ListGlobalVars() function (link to the thread is in the script) to manage RegExMatch's output array. Afaik, the function is magic, and I'm glad that I could harness it's mysterious power.

7.20.08: Tiny script edit to deal with bug if match was exactly "0". Be warned, if your regex is looking for "©¥®©¥®©¥®©¥®", you will not find it. This is now a known issue, and frankly, I'm ok with it. Very Happy

RegexSandbox.ahk:

Thrawn · Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Germany

i like
thx a lot Very Happy

heresy · Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 291

i like it though there were already few regex testers
and i like the style how you organized codes very readable
thanks for sharing!
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trik · Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 1320

Yeah, there is one. Titan made it. It can be found Here.
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pokercurious · Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 48

@Ian:

Yeah, I've seen that. I feel like my script serves a different purpose than that one. I wanted to keep my script simple and basic - Titan's does some really cool things that, frankly, kind of scare me =). I only wish my brain worked at that speed.

Anyway, I had a need, wrote a script to fill that need, and thought it was reasonably decent enough to share.

@Thrawn & @heresy:

Thanks for the kind words!

Guest · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 4:36 am Post subject:

actually there's one almost exactly like this already, made by toralf. Found here

pokercurious · Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 48

Guest · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 5:12 am Post subject:

the more the better, don't care about duplication notice
and yours has a bit more intuitive gui imo so keep it going
greetz

toralf n-l-i · Guest

Hi pokercurious,

Congrats to your script. Don't appologize for your work. If there are more versions for the same purpose, people have a choice and we all have an opportunity to learn.

Thanks
toralf

pokercurious · Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 48

tank · Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 3700 Location: Louisville KY USA

with al programing there are lots of ways to do anything if nothing else if gives people a way to compare different methods and thereby understand whats actually hapening
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tcgbp · Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 24 Location: China

ani1744 · Guest

Awsome program!

But the script has small problem.
Looks like a bug to me.

Guest · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:16 am Post subject:

Not a bug (except pehaps in your understanding of regex).
\d find the first digit

pokercurious · Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 48

@Guest and @ani1744:

It was actually a bug (if ani1744's example was a bit different):

With the needle being "(\d)" and the haystack "R01234.n", the "match1" variable should be set to "0". And it wasn't doing that, because when it checks the array for variables, it was checking for existence, and "0" evaluates to false, and then it wouldn't display the result.

Edit: it was actually a bug in ani1744's example, because the variable "match" should have been "0". my bad. Anyway, fixed below (more or less).

So, I added some screwy ASCII characters to the code that checks for existence: