---
title: "The Regulator featured on RegexLib.com"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/22/the-regulator-featured-on-regexlibcom.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/22/the-regulator-featured-on-regexlibcom.html"
published: "2004-02-22T19:29:00"
updated: "2004-02-22T19:29:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "The Regulator , my Regex testing tool, has been named by Regexlib.com as their “recommended tool for testing regular expressions” and has been put up there in the front page. They also put up a resource page for many…"
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/"
---

# The Regulator featured on RegexLib.com

By Roy Osherove February 22, 2004 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 22, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

[The Regulator](http://royo.is-a-geek.com/iserializable/regulator/), my Regex testing tool, has been named by [Regexlib.com](http://www.regexlib.com/) as their “recommended tool for testing regular expressions” and has been put up there in the front page. They also put up a [resource page](http://www.regexlib.com/Resources.aspx) for many other regex testing tools, books, articles and links.  I'm totally flattered.

[Regexlib.com](http://www.regexlib.com/) is a website dedicated to collecting and sharing regular expressions to parse almost anything. Anyone can register and post their own regular expressions that they've found interesting and helpful. You can too.

[The Regulator](http://royo.is-a-geek.com/iserializable/regulator/) has tight integration with [Regexlib.](http://www.regexlib.com/)com's web service, which allows the user to search for regular expressions in regexlib.com's database from within the tool, and with a click import them and test them inside the program.

It also features a “publish“ wizard which lets you post regular expressions onto regexlib.com directly from within The Regulator.Did I mention it's totally free?

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- Feb 11, 2004

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## About the author

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