---
title: "[Tool] The Regulator 1.02a is out"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/5/tool-the-regulator-102a-is-out.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/5/tool-the-regulator-102a-is-out.html"
published: "2003-11-05T11:24:00"
updated: "2003-11-05T11:24:00"
tags: [".Net Original", "Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Version 1.02a released! Features: Regexlib.com integration Search and import expressions and examples from RegexLib.com ’s database Post your own regular expressions into regexlib's database, direct from The regulator…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# \[Tool\] The Regulator 1.02a is out

By Roy Osherove November 5, 2003 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published November 5, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

[**Version 1.02a released!**](http://royo.is-a-geek.com/regulator/)

**Features:**

**Regexlib.com integration**

- Search and import expressions and examples from [RegexLib.com](http://www.regexlib.com/)’s database
- Post your own regular expressions into regexlib's database, direct from The regulator using a graphical wizard
- Full Proxy support for secure connections

**Text Editing**

- Syntax highlighting
- Multiple document tabbed interface
- Quick menus allow you to easily select syntax operations to insert
- Quick Menus are fully customisable simply by changing a simple xml file in the program directory
- Brace matching support
- Make selected text "escaped" to match a specific string exactly without needing to manually write those \\s,\\n and other escape sequences
- Collapse/expand selection: you can create collapsible regions in your regex code for easy reading
- Select only a portion of the expression in the editor and only that selection will be executed as a match\\replace

**Performance analysis**

- A graphical chart of the latest matches/replaces timings shows you if your optimization efforts are working
- an exact number (in milliseconds) of last match/replace operation

**Expert Snippets**

- An easy and simple toolbar of frequently used text snippets is always handy for hard to type expressions
- The snippets toolbar is fully customizable and any snippet can be edited/deleted or you can just add your own
- Inserted snippets that contain the "<>" signs will automatically make the text editor set the selection between those signs, allowing you to make generic snippets that save you typing time

**General usability features**

- **Multi threaded operations** : ability to cancel long running expression matches and replaces
- Minimize to tray option
- Recent files menu
- Other small features

## More in .Net Original

[All posts in .Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

- Nov 17, 2003

    ### [Why are typed data tables columns declared "internal"?](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/17/why-are-typed-data-tables-columns-declared-quotinternalquot.html)

- Nov 14, 2003

    ### [The Regulator 1.02b is out](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/14/the-regulator-102b-is-out.html)

- Nov 4, 2003

    ### [\[Article X 2\] 2 more of mine published on MSDNAA](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/4/article-x-2-2-more-of-mine-published-on-msdnaa.html)

- Nov 4, 2003

    ### [\[Article/Code\]: Easy Proxy handling through the ProxyFactory and ProxyInfo classes](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/4/articlecode-easy-proxy-handling-through-the-proxyfactory-and.html)


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