Dog and Pony sez :

You could always precompile the regexp:

I had a compiled regex in for a while, and it worked well for matches. But my understanding of compiled regexes led me to think I'd need something like :
$testtext2 =~ s/$retext/$repltext/for substitutions.

Which seems like I'd need to add in another text field for the replacement text, and then another text field (or checkboxes) for the flags. This would actually make it look quite similar to JEdit's RETester, in fact.

I'll put it on the to do list.

In reply to Compiling your regexes (boo) by boo_radley
in thread Wx Regex Tester by boo_radley

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