Testing regular expressions (I)

Today, I was looking for a simple utility that I could use for testing (and experimenting) with Regular Expressions. For Windows, Regulator is the obvious choice but for Mac OS X several small utilities exists. Here is a list of some of the hits reported by Google:

• Reggy 1.1
  
• RegexTester 1.0
  
• RegExpress 1.2
  
• RegExToolbox
  
• Regex Widget
  

Some of them should be considered work in progress. In some cases, closing 'about' or 'preference' dialogs also closed the main application :) From the list above I would recommend Regex Widget and Reggy although Reggy often crashed on my MacBook.

Reggy

RegExp Widget