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Does there exist a free Windows software program that will help you generate regular expressions using a wizard?
I'm not exactly sure what I am looking for but I am not looking for a regexp evaluator. What I need is a calculator/wizard to help me learn how reg expressions work, while not knowing all the syntax details (until i have the experience of course).
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Despite being hard to read, hard to validate, hard to document and notoriously hard to master, regexes are still widely used today. Supported by all modern programming languages, text processing programs and advanced text editors, regexes are now used in more than a third of both Python and JavaScript projects.
"Regex Generator is a simple web interface to generate regular expressions from a set of strings."
Regex101.com is an interactive regular expression console that lets you debug your expressions in real-time. What this means is that you can build your expressions and see how it affects a live data set all in one screen at the same time. The tool was created by Firas Dib, with contributions from many other developers.
Expresso is a good free tool. It just needs email registration, but it's free. The developer of that tool also wrote The 30 Minute Regex Tutorial which you can use to follow along. It's included in the help file of Expresso.
RegexBuddy is not free, but seems to have a helpful UI and a cool debugger. Take a look at the demos.
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