--- title: "Regex (Blog category)" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/category/regex.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/category/regex" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts." 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/" --- # Regex (Blog category) Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts. HTML: https://osherove.com/blog/category/regex · 16 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://osherove.com/llms.txt) - [Regulazy 1.0.3 Released](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/10/9/regulazy-103-released.md) (2006-10-09): The monthly iteration release of Regulazy is up over here . Regulazy is a visual Regex Creation tool for beginners. It contains an easy "point and click" user interface , and allows creating regular expressions for… - [Regulazy 1.02 is out and about](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/9/10/regulazy-102-is-out-and-about.md) (2006-09-10): There's a new monthly version (1.02) out of Regulazy. You can grab it over here . (if the link is broken try http://tools.osherove.com/ ) Regulazy is a visual Regex Creation tool for beginners. It contains an easy… - [The Next Regex Regulator](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/3/1/the-next-regex-regulator.md) (2006-03-01): It hasn't left my mind! Here's a preview of the current build. I'll make it downloadable when it becomes a little more usable than its current state. - [The Reanimator - Visualize How the Regex Engine Works](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/28/the-reanimator-visualize-how-the-regex-engine-works.md) (2006-02-28): If you're into Regular Expressions, check out the Reanimator . It provides a visual graphs of how the match was performed. "The regular expression is compiled into a nondeterministic finite-state automaton (the first… - [Announcing Regex Kit: Regular Expression Visualizers for VS 2005](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/26/announcing-regex-kit-regular-expression-visualizers-for-vs-2.md) (2005-11-26): I've been hibernating with everything relating to regular expressions for quite sometime now. I'm still working on the Regulator 3.0 (built on .NET 2.0), but for now, I thought I'd release these: Regex Debug Visualizers… - [Sessions done at TechEd](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/7/8/sessions-done-at-teched.md) (2005-07-08): I just finished doing all my sessions and chalk talks at TechEd. phew. I didn't imagine it would be so demanding physically (the mileage you walk between sessions is huge!). I've gotten feedback scores on all of them -… - [Balanced matching using .NET Regex](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/19/balanced-matching-using-net-regex.md) (2005-06-19): .NET Regular expressions have an extended ability to match "balanced items". For example, in the string "a + (b+(c+d))" it can find correct pairs of matching open and closing brackets. It's not the most simple solution… - [The Regex phrase of death](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/5/the-regex-phrase-of-death.md) (2005-06-05): "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. " -Jamie Zawinski, in comp.lang.emacs I swear, if one more person sends me an email, SMS message or… - [Announcing: The Regulator Logo Contest](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/2/announcing-the-regulator-logo-contest.md) (2005-06-02): All details on this and more that you wanted to know: /logocontest Feel creative? Got Illustrator or Photoshop? Feel like donating back to the community? Wanna free cool .NET component? If you answered "yes", read on.… - [Regulator 2005 & GUI threads goo- news on both?](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/5/2/regulator-2005-amp-gui-threads-goo-news-on-both.md) (2005-05-02): I've kept mostly quiet for the past N weeks because of holidays+illness. It gave me time to geek out and start working on a fresh new version of The Regulator (aptly dubbed "Regulator 2005"). Boy am I a happy camper.… - [Blogs.RegexAdvice.com - smells like community spirit](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/4/13/blogsregexadvicecom-smells-like-community-spirit.md) (2005-04-13): http://blogs.regexadvice.com/ is really starting to pick up. I haven't posted there a lot myself, but looking at the latest batch of posts - people are really investing time and effort into writing useful stuff. And… - ["Buy first, ask questions later"](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/16/quotbuy-first-ask-questions-laterquot.md) (2005-01-16): Jeff likes RegexBuddy , and I'd like to believe it's that good. I'd like to try it out. Unfortunately, their web page says the following: " There is no free evaluation version of RegexBuddy. You can safely buy… - [The Regulator now hosted at Regex.osherove.com](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/11/the-regulator-now-hosted-at-regexosherovecom.md) (2005-01-11): FYI: The Regulator will be hosted from now on at http://regex.osherove.com/ No longer will the fact that my home machine is down mean that The Regulator's site will be offline. Phew. And for the record, I'm working on a… - [Q&A - Greedy matching in regular expressions](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/10/qampa-greedy-matching-in-regular-expressions.md) (2005-01-10): This came in the mail, thought other folks might be interested. Hi Roy. I need to check a line of html and make the value of the style attribute lowercase. I've tried to come up with a regex that will work but I keep… - [Full source for The Regulator released](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/7/full-source-for-the-regulator-released.md) (2005-01-07): I finally got around to release the full source code for The Regulator . Up until now the source code was partial and included mostly just the plugins for it. Now you get to see what a sloppy coder I really was when I… - [Using Regex to return the first N words in a string](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/7/using-regex-to-return-the-first-n-words-in-a-string.md) (2005-01-07): Jeff Perrin needed a function to return the first N words in a string (to create a small summary or a snippet thingy). He did it using the manual and awkward method of parsing the string manually. That method is more… --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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