[Boost-users] Re: [regex] Is there any function to know where theinput fails to match a regex?

From: jordi (jordil2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-23 06:01:54

Reid Sweatman wrote:
>>>Does anyone know any application/utility that includes this feature 
>>>(or a regular expression debugger)?  At least this utility would be 
>>>easier to define (and check) a regular expression against a 
>>>input.
>>
>>Try 'The Regex Coach' @ http://weitz.de/regex-coach/ - that's 
>>my favourite. Built on a Lisp port of PCRE, it uses Lisp's 
>>macro feature to build instrumentation into the library. The 
>>syntax is different in places to Boost.Regex, but it's close 
>>enough for development work.
> 
> 
> 
> That one's good.  You might also look at RxToolkit (can't turn up the URL
> right now, but it's not the one in Komodo) or RegexBuddy
> (http://www.regular-expressions.info/regexbuddy.html).  I personally like
> RegexBuddy better because of the way it displays the match, but then, it's
> shareware at $30, which bugs some folk.  There's an interesting example of
> it on the blog http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000027.html.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression is interesting, as well.
> 
> Reid

Thanks for your replies.  I will try any of them.  I really do not need 
them because my regex are not so difficult and I can use "try & error" 
but it's always better using a debugger!

Jordi