Regex Tester: This Eclipse plugin is definitely a keeper
Posted : June 9, 2004 at 9:27 am [America/Los_Angeles]
Ask for a tool and thou shalt receive it.
Thank you Christoph for pointing out this really simple RegEx plugin for Eclipse. Tested it on M9 and it works like a charm. Download it, unzip it, put the folders in the plugins folder, fire up your Eclipse, go to Window | Show View | Other.. and select RegEx Tester. I really luved the “Live Evaluation”. Made a small donation too.
Now, if we only had context-sensitive drop-downs. Stephan, any chance you’re tuned in 
- Anand
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Hey, of course I’m tuned in.
The net is a village. As a regular javablogs reader I stumbled over your blog before.
As for the RegEx Tester, the next version is actually done since quite some time. Need to do some “house keeping”, code refactoring + documentation. Context-sensitive drop-downs would be nice, but its hard to implement with the SWT components I was using. Maybe I’ll find a workaround.
As for new features I can offer:
+++ 3 distinct Match Modes: Find, Match and Replace, all support LiveEval
+++ Replace with back references $1,$2…
+++ “Paste String Literal” - Copy a string literal from your code and strip off all back-slashes
+++ Improved “Clear Menu”, choose which parts of the view you
would like to get cleared every time you press the clear button
+++ a couple of bug fixes.
If you want to “beta”-test, I’ll send you the version I’m using.
Thanks for the donation!
Stephan
Posted by: Stephan at June 9, 2004 @ 10:51 am
Way to go Stephan. Yes, count me in for beta-testing. - Anand
Posted by: Anand Sharma at June 9, 2004 @ 12:12 pm
I found it really bad, and poorly honest, to move this plugin to commercial development, without even leaving available an old, open source version. That’s why I’m cloning this plugin in SourceForge, as regex-tester, so there can exist a real honest open source version of this.
Posted by: Miguel Griffa at April 13, 2005 @ 9:54 am