iHateRegex Alternatives

iHateRegex is described as 'Offers an easy way for developers to find helpful and reusable regular expressions while also providing an intuitive playground to interact with regex snippets to create or just learn' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to iHateRegex for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Mac, Linux and iPhone apps. The best iHateRegex alternative is regular expressions 101, which is free. Other great apps like iHateRegex are RegExr, Expresso, Wildcard and RegexMate.

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  1. RegEx Edit icon
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    Create, edit, and test RegEx Regular Expressions. Replace, format, and extract text in files using Regular Expressions. Perform GREP-like tasks, use RegEx substitutions, extract data! Supports color syntax highlighting and contextual tooltips making it easy to design patterns.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Rubular icon
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    A ruby based regular expression editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Expressions icon
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    Expressions is a minimal, distraction-free tool for experimenting with regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. RegexMagic icon
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    Use RegexMagic to generate complete regular expressions to your specifications by using RegexMagics flexible patterns, instead of the cryptic regex syntax.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Visual REGEXP icon
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    This software will let you design your regexps by letting you type the expression and visualize its effect on a sample of your choice.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    A free environment for regular expression testing (ferret). It allows you to write regexes and test them against a sample text, providing extensive output about the results.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Regexper icon
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    regex visualization tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Search multiple strings occurrences simultaneously with the help of this piece of software that comes with support for regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Multi String Replacer is a small and portable application that can be used to replace multiple strings at once. Its main functionality is String Swapping in which can be easily and quickly done. String swapping consists on replacing WordX with WordY and WordY with WordX.

    67 Multi String Replacer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. RegExhibit icon
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    Having trouble getting your regular expressions just right? Not sure what they match and what they leave out? Tired of having to write test programs every time? RegExhibit can help.

    37 RegExhibit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. RegEx Lab icon
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    RegEx Lab allows you to test regular expressions. The app highlights and underlines text to show matches and capture groups. There's also a handy cheatsheet and a results list view. It has a replace feature too.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  12. Scripal icon
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    If you’re annoyed by regex’s syntax and simply don’t like the notation, or your specific regex library is awfully slow, there are alternatives. Regex is hard to read, even one’s own expressions after some time.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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