Introducing RegexMagic

RegexMagic makes creating regular expressions easier than ever. While other regex tools merely make it easier to work with regular expressions, with RegexMagic you don’t have to deal with the regular expression syntax at all. RegexMagic generates complete regular expressions to your specifications.

First, you provide RegexMagic with some samples of the text you want your regular expression to match. RegexMagic can automatically detect what sort of pattern your text looks like. Numbers, dates, and email addresses are just a few examples of the wide range of patterns that RegexMagic supports. By marking different parts of your samples, you can create regular expressions that combine multiple patterns to match exactly what you want. RegexMagic’s patterns provide many options, so you can make your regular expression as loose or as strict as you want.

Best of all, RegexMagic supports nearly all popular regular expression flavors. Select your flavor, and RegexMagic makes sure to generate a regular expression that works with it. RegexMagic can even generate snippets in many programming languages that you can copy and paste directly into your source code to implement your regular expression.

RegexMagic doesn’t automatically generate regular expressions on magic alone. But it sure makes things a lot easier by allowing you to work with your data instead of the cryptic regex syntax.

How to Use RegexMagic

RegexMagic enables you to create regular expressions without having to learn the rather cryptic regular expression syntax. Best of all, RegexMagic itself takes very little time to learn. If you take about 10 minutes to read the getting started topics and work through a few examples, you’ll have a good idea of what you can do with RegexMagic and how to use its capabilities. You’ll be creating regular expressions in no time.

• Getting started with RegexMagic
• Adding sample text
• Creating regular expressions
• Creating replacement text
• Using your regular expressions

RegexMagic Examples

The best way to learn the ins and outs of RegexMagic is to work through as many examples as you have time for. All examples have full step-by-step instructions. You can do them in any order. The only prerequisite knowledge is given in the getting started topics.

• Patterns: RegexMagic’s regular expression building blocks
• Fields: Combine patterns to make a regex match anything you want
• Putting it all together: Real world examples

RegexMagic Reference

• Assistant: Displays helpful tips and error messages
• Samples: Provide sample text and highlight the parts you want to match
• Match: Specify the text patterns you want to match based on the sample text
• Action: Specify which parts of the regex match you want to collect or replace
• Regex: Generate your regular expression
• Regex: Copy and paste regexes between RegexMagic and your searching, editing and coding tools
• Regex: Compare your regular expression between multiple applications
• Use: Generate code to use the regex in your programming language
• Library: Store regex actions in RegexMagic libraries
• GREP: Search and replace through files and folders
• Forum: Share your experiences with other RegexMagic users or get help
• Adjust RegexMagic to your preferences
• Integrate RegexMagic with your software tools

Learn More About Regular Expressions

• Brief introduction to get started quickly with regular expressions
• Learn the complete regex syntax in a detailed regular expression tutorial
• Brief regex syntax overview, for quick reference
• Example regexes illustrating how to create and use them
• How to use regexes with a variety of software tools and programming languages