RegexBuddy Makes Regular Expressions Easy

JGsoft has released RegexBuddy, a Windows and Linux utility that lets you learn, create, understand, test, use, and save regular expressions. Regular expressions are a powerful yet complex tool for programmers, engineers and researchers to search through text and process data. RegexBuddy makes working with regular expressions easy.

(PRWEB) June 25, 2004 -- JGsoft has released RegexBuddy, a Windows and Linux utility that lets you learn, create, understand, test, use, and save regular expressions. A regular expression or "regex" is a special text string that describes a search pattern. Similar to wildcards, a regex is a much more powerful expression that is recognized by most programming languages, many search engines, and most programmers' text editors.

Employed by programmers, scientists, and engineers for three decades, regular expressions are now being used by business people, analysts, and researchers to turn data into information. RegexBuddy takes the pain out of creating and using regular expressions.

The regex syntax can be very confusing. With RegexBuddy, instead of typing regex tokens directly, simply pick what you want from a descriptive menu. Use RegexBuddy's neatly-organized tree of regex tokens to keep track of the pattern you have built so far. Power users can edit the regex directly. With a single click, you can access RegexBuddy's tutorial, and get a detailed explanation of any token.

After creating a regular expression, you can test it on sample data. The RegexBuddy tester and debugger lets you step through the search matches, and get a detailed report about each match. With RegexBuddy, it's easy to thoroughly test your expressions, and avoid surprises in your production code.

Once you have created, tested, and debugged your regular expression, you can store it to your private library for reuse in all of your applications. It's easy to search or browse your library, and quickly locate the regex you want.

RegexBuddy can be used as a companion to your search tools, text editing and processing tools, and programming and development tools. RegexBuddy pops up to provide assistance, and disappears when you've finished editing the regex.

The Windows version of RegexBuddy provides both a command line interface and a COM automation interface. The Linux version has an API that uses standard input and output to provide the same functionality as the COM interface on Windows.

In addition to providing a wealth of information about regular expressions on the JGsoft web site (http://www.regexbuddy.com/), the company also provides an information site (http://www.regular-expressions.info/) which contains a comprehensive regex information resource for programmers and non-programmers.

Whether you're a programmer who needs to quickly create and test the regular expressions that you include in your applications, a student who wants to learn to create regular expressions and to understand the ones that you find in your computer science text books, or a researcher who needs the power of regular expressions to search for and analyze data, RegexBuddy has the tools that you need.

RegexBuddy runs under Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP. There is a separate version for all popular Linux platforms, including SuSE 7.x, 8.x and 9.x, Mandrake 7.x, 8.x and 9.x, and Red Hat 8.x and 9.x. A single-user license costs $29.95(US). You can purchase RegexBuddy
securely at http://www.regexbuddy.com/ with a risk-free, 90-day unconditional money back guarantee. For more information, contact: JGsoft, 22/1 Sri Saeng Thong Road, Muang Ubonratchathani 34000, Thailand. Email: support@regexbuddy.com. Internet:
http://www.regexbuddy.com/.

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Editors can receive a fully licensed copy of the product, as well as a free evaluation version that they can place on cover CDs etc.

About JGsoft:

Since 1996, JGsoft has been developing and marketing Windows applications for software developers and business people. In addition to RegexBuddy, the company also offers PowerGREP, a Windows grep (globbing regular expressions) tool that lets you quickly search through any number of text and binary files for words, phrases, and strings; EditPad Pro, a powerful text editor that features rich support for regular expressions, syntax coloring, spell checking, and cross-platform text conversion; DeployMaster, a Windows application that lets developers create professional, attractive, no-nonsense
software installers; and HelpScribble, an easy-to-use programmer's tool to create professional WinHelp and HTML Help files.

About www.regular-expressions.info

JGsoft has developed http://www.regular-expressions.info/, a content-rich web site with wall-to-wall information about regular expressions. The site includes a complete regular expression tutorial, examples of using regular expressions in perl, Java, .NET, and
other popular programming languages and libraries, and a description of other regex tools that will help programmers and non-programmers alike learn to enjoy the power of using regular expressions in their work.