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I’ve been fighting through a number of different lengthy groups of log files and such, having to sort and pull and compare information out of them to make sense of a project. Regex as usual wins the day along with a heavy dose of Vim. The only problem is I have never learned the various regex implementations enough to be really comfortable. Naturally since I haven’t learned even Perl’s regex well enough to be comfortable, I often enough spend quite some time scratching my head or searching online for the the answer to a particular issue.
I don’t know how many times I have used The Regex Coach in the past three days, but I do know it has saved me at least an hour or two of scratching my head and hunting. It is an awesome tool and learning aid for Perl like regex implementations. My favorite part of it is the interactive highlighting and the Tree view of a regex string. Awesome!