Regular Expression Find add-on for MS Excel is well made utility you can attach to Excel to perform advanced searches and replacements. Note that the add-on lets you choose a custom shortcut key to press whenever you need to use it. The add-on’s interface resembles the one coming with the regular search option of MS […]
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Regular expressions are becoming the method of choice for a wide variety of text processing tasks. They are powerful, subtle, some may argue too cryptic, but once mastered they greatly simplify text processing. This page allows you to create and test regular expressions quickly and interactively. It can be thought of as a “regular expression […]
With V-Grep (Visual GREP) you can specify expressions representing complex patterns that are difficult or impossible to find using only masks, such as: e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, IP addresses etc. V-Grep allows you also to search for files even without any knowledge about regular expressions. Especially if you use to perform demanding searches you may V-Grep’s […]
If you try to find in Notepad Plus Plus a command like that available in NoteTab, to add something to the start or the end of the lines of your text, you search in vain. Perhaps some plugin is dedicated to such jobs, but you don’t have to use one even if it exists. You […]
Agent Ransack is a free and powerful application that will help you to locate on your PC files and information fast and easily. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack displays the text found. This way you will be able to browse the results without having to separately open each file. Features: Regular expressions […]
If you happen to ignore the secrets of regular expressions and you need to perform these rather common tasks, here is how you can do it. A most useful search (and replace or remove) command is when you need to get rid of some links. /<a href=”http:\/\/domain\.com[^>]*>([\s\S]*?)<\/a>/ The formula above will find any domain.com link. […]
Search RegEx is a useful plugin, provided you are familiar with regular expressions. In the examples below I’m showing how you can replace all occurences of some shortcode or tag. Let’s say you have the shortcode [yourshortcode thevalue=”several values”]. Since “several values” can be whatever, you need a regular expression to include any possible value. […]
| — A vertical bar separates alternatives. For example, gray|grey can match “gray” or “grey”. ( ) — Parentheses are used to define the scope and precedence of the operators (among other uses). For example, gray|grey and gr(a|e)y are equivalent patterns which both describe the set of “gray” and “grey”. ? — The question mark […]
AstroGrep is a free utility that will let you search within files for keywords. The program supports regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recently used paths. A Microsoft Word plugin will handle .docx files. Features of AstroGrep: Regular expressions * Concurrent multiple file types * Recursive directory searching * A “context” feature that selects […]
Regular expressions isn’t the most difficult thing on earth, yet not anyone knows even basic syntax. Expresso is a free program (with obligatory registration) that includes a library of useful regular expressions you can use to insert automatically parts of an expression you’d like to build, a visual editor. The program lets you paste expressions […]