Expresso (by Ultrapico) - Regular Expression Builder

[riddarhusetgal]

Does anyone blog about Expresso this or have links to any vids? Would love to see them. I am trying to better automate some popular parsing needs

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[mattseh]

Are you using this tool just to generate code that you then plug into a scraper? A brief look at the site seems like it doesn't have anything to offer if you already know regular expressions?

 

[nvanprooyen]

That's what it looks like to me. Regex is kind of intimidating in the beginning, but after you get the hang of it it's not too bad. Plus, you can usually find patterns other people have written if you look around a little. E.g. email regex pattern - Google Search

There are a lot of examples on this site (browse by category at the top) - http://regexlib.com/DisplayPatterns.aspx?cattabindex=6&categoryId=7

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[mattseh]

patterns like href="(.+?)" fit 90% of my needs

 

[riddarhusetgal]

That's what it looks like to me. Regex is kind of intimidating in the beginning, but after you get the hang of it it's not too bad. Plus, you can usually find patterns other people have written if you look around a little. E.g. email regex pattern - Google Search

There are a lot of examples on this site (browse by category at the top) - Regular Expression Library

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[riddarhusetgal]

patterns like href="(.+?)" fit 90% of my needs

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Do you have a blog? Link me, will check it out for fun....

 

[DKPMO]

What language are you using? Expresso is a nice visual RegEx builder but it only generates code for .NET languages (C# / VB / C++).

Does anyone know how to convert C# RegEx code into PHP (PCRE) syntax?

 

[DKPMO]

NM, I found another tool, called RegexBuddy, that does it: Using Regular Expressions with The Open Source PCRE Library