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Autogenerate Regular Expressions with txt2re

January 26th, 2011

Hate writing regular expressions? Of course you do. That's why txt2re exists.

Billed as "headache relief for programmers," txt2re let's you input a string and and then use a simple wizard that generates a regex program in Perl PHP, Python, Java, Javascript, ColdFusion, C, C++, Ruby, VB, VBScript, J#.net, C#.net, C++.net or VB.net.

"A good data munger excels at turning coffee into regular expressions and parsers, implemented in a high-level scripting language of choice (often Perl, Python, even Javascript)," Michael E. Driscoll wrote in 2009. With txt2re, you get to cheat a little.

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Klint Finley is a Writer for ReadWriteWeb. He has a BA from The Evergreen State College, where he studied communications and mass media. He's the editor of the blogs Technoccult and Mediapunk, and has been writing about technology and culture for over 10 years. He lives in Portland, OR.

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