Regular expressions (a.k.a. regex) is not for the faint hearted. It sometimes seems like a programming language on its own. Unless you use it on a daily basis, you tend to forget how to extract an URL from text or how to properly validate an email address. There are a number of good tools, but they all kind of lack one or more features.

Grant Skinner made an Adobe AIR desktop application that runs on any platform that supports AIR. It is a bloody fantastic app called RegExr. It has a slick user interface that makes it perfect to test your regex on and the very handy feature of saving your regular expressions for future use and a number of recipes made by the user community.

With very little or no regex knowledge, you can now impress your friends like a superhero!

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