TextCrawler Pro 3 Manual

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Regular Expressions Tester

 
This useful tool is for testing the results of Regular Expressions on a chunk of text.  The test text can be typed in or loaded from a file.
 
 
Regular Expressions Tester
1

Case Sensitive option

1. Case Sensitive option
Check this to make the regular expression case-sensitive.
2

Multi-line Anchors option

2. Multi-line Anchors option
Check this to make the regular expression work in multi-line mode.  (Changes the meaning of ^ and $ so they match at the beginning and end, respectively, of any line, and not just the beginning and end of the entire file).
3

Dot Matches Newline option

3. Dot Matches Newline option
 Changes the meaning of the dot (.) so that it matches every character (instead of every character except \n).)
 
4

Regular Expression input

4. Regular Expression input
The regular expression to test
5

Replace Expression Input

5. Replace Expression Input
The replace text.
6

Update button

6. Update button
This will update the results
7

Dynamic Update check

7. Dynamic Update check
If checked, the results will be updated as you type.
8

Regular expression library button

8. Regular expression library button
This button will show the Library, allowing expressions in the library to be used in the tester, or expressions in the tester to be saved.
 
9

Load file button

9. Load file button
This will load a text file into the window for testing
10

Paste text button

10. Paste text button
Paste the current contents of the clipboard into the test window.
11

Results area

11. Results area
The results of the test.
 
Four views are available:
  • Matches (list) - shows all matches found, along with captured groups
  • Matches (text) - all matched text
  • Replacements - all replaced text
  • Full text with replacements
     
12

Use This button

12. Use This button
This will use the current regular expression in the parent window.