Terminator of Regular Expressions - Regulator !!
Posted : June 8, 2004 at 11:44 am [America/Los_Angeles]
Came across a .NET based tool called Regulator. It recently got the thumbs up from RegExLib.com folks which sure sounds like a big deal to me.
Anyway, I took it for a spin this morning and I must say that it works pretty well. I did get a couple of Runtime Exceptions, but they were probably caused because I did not know what I was doing. Good news is they were caught gracefully and the tool allowed me to continue.
Also, by default, Regulator opens up with far too many sub-windows for my taste, enough to even put Photoshop to shame 
Anyway, after closing out a few of these windows, I ended up with a neat looking RegEx editor! I especially liked the context-sensitive drop-down (as shown above).
Now, what would really rock is porting this tool into an Eclipse Plugin or View (kinda like Cheat Sheet). Until that happens, Regulator will definitely find a place in my toolbox.
- Anand
Category: Application Development
3 Comments
Hi Anand, there’s a Eclipse Plugin: http://brosinski.com/stephan/archives/000028.php
It doesn’t look as nice as the .net tool does, but it works just fine.
Posted by: Christoph at June 8, 2004 @ 10:17 pm
Wow. Thank you Christoph!!
Posted by: Anand Sharma at June 9, 2004 @ 9:28 am
Great information and site
Posted by: Twink at September 21, 2004 @ 6:02 pm