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title: "RegexLib's web service pays off big time."
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/18/regexlibs-web-service-pays-off-big-time.md"
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published: "2004-03-18T12:15:00"
updated: "2004-03-18T12:15:00"
tags: [".Net Original"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "The Regulator ’s Web-Search pane finally became useful for me today. I was helping someone out with some tricky parsing code and we had no idea how to do something (parse an SQL query). A quick search for “SQL” inside…"
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# RegexLib's web service pays off big time.

By Roy Osherove March 18, 2004 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 18, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

[The Regulator](http://royo.is-a-geek.com/regulator)’s Web-Search pane finally became useful for me today. I was helping someone out with some tricky parsing code and we had no idea how to do something (parse an SQL query). A quick search for “SQL” inside the web search pane turned up an expression that matched what we needed entirely. How cool is that?

Thanks for the web service, [Darren](http://weblogs.asp.net/dneimke) J

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