This post is basically a review of an emacs-module but since Reviews only covers CPAN and books I'll add it here in meditations, it's a repost from emacs-perl-intersection group!

Hi guys

I gave regex-tool.el a try, it's an interactive regex tester like regex-builder, but can be modfied customized to work with perl.

http://github.com/jwiegley/regex-tool/blob/master/regex-tool.el

The project hasn't been updated for 2 years now, but I like it!

It's a very small but functional module (190 lines incl. docs) which can be easily modified, especially the embedded perlcode!

Furthermore I found a workaround to test just more than a line by just adding a (?x) in the first line.

This makes it an extended regex and you can experiment by simply commenting lines out:

 (?x)  #multiline
#(?i)  # do I want it case sensitive?
prematch(group) # your regex

[download]

Komodo's RegEx tester may look more comfortable, but it runs on Python's PCRE engine not Perl, which may cause special problems!

http://docs.activestate.com/komodo/5.1/tutorial/tourlet_rx.html

Here some nice DHTML tester I found

  • http://osteele.com/tools/rework/
  • http://erik.eae.net/playground/regexp/regexp.html

    Cheers Rolf

    PS: I started to write a PerlRegex to Elisp-Regex converter with regexes only.

    Re^3: [emacs] converting perl regex into elisp regex

    Still needs a decent test-coverage, but looks promising for me. (I'm searching for a good method to run automated tests from perl in emacs)

    Please tell me if you find a bug!

    One of the next versions shall also produce an elisp-version of the converter such that you can use perlsyntax directly from emacs.

    • PS: here another review plus screenshot http://www.newartisans.com/2007/10/a-regular-expression-ide-for-emacs.html

    In reply to [emacs] short review of regex-tool.el by LanX

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