Regex tool on Windows

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Need to work a bit on a pretty big text file.

Could someone suggest something similar to "The Regex Coach" but to be able to save matched results only?

What do you want to save them to? Text file? – Abe Miessler May 13 '11 at 16:20 — Abe Miessler, May 13 '11 at 16:20

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 13 '11 at 21:13

Tools like "The Regex Coach" or the "Regular Expression Designer" are tools to test regular expressions and not to work on files. I don't know one that can store the results, Regex Designer can store the Regexes in a xml file.

If you want to do that you should use a Editor with regular expression support, like:

Notepad++, is free but the regex support is a bit limited.
UltraEdit, not free (trial period of 30 days), but better regex support

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 21 '12 at 18:11

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Regex Pixie is a tool that can save just the matches.

answered Aug 21 '12 at 18:11

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 13 '11 at 21:19

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There are many good tools available. I regularly use the following. Based on the OP, it sounds like a simple use of grep would work (grep pattern file > newfile).

Many others as well (Perl, Python, etc.)

answered May 13 '11 at 21:19

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@Mike: I don't think you are correct. I just downloaded and ran the setup for grep. It only installed the files for grep. It did not install all of cygwin (unless cygwin only consists of grep :) – Mark Wilkins May 13 '11 at 21:55
Ugg I meant to say that your links are correct. You have to go into the cygwin package selection utility and select the tools like awk and sed – Mike Pennington May 13 '11 at 22:46
Guess i'll go with Ruby. There is nice oneclick setup. Read a bit of documentations and write a small script. Thanks ;) – Somebody May 29 '11 at 15:03
You don't need cygwin. Just add grep install location to your system PATH variable and use it from CMD.exe. – mixedbag99 Oct 03 '18 at 15:36

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 23 '23 at 19:26

I have been using Ultrapico's Expresso, which is a free desktop Windows app. It allows complete development and testing of all scenarios specified in the IEEE specifications, and is a great tool. I can't recommend it strongly enough. It lets you save and retrieve projects, so if you are heavy into RegEx, you will be very happy with how it supports your needs.

https://regex101.com/ is available online, it's OK but nowhere near as robust as Expresso.

For Mac, there is Re/g in the App Store for $13.99, I don't know how good it is.

For Linux, you can run some quick checks in Bash shell, but for playing around you are probably better off on the websites.

Regex tool on Windows

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