by Grant Skinner

RegExr Desktop Released: Regular Expression Tool in AIR

I just uploaded the desktop version of RegExr. It’s just an AIR version of the online application for now, but I’ll add some desktop specific features, and put up a nicer looking page when I have a chance.

With this morning’s announcement of the AIR alpha for Linux, this means RegExr is now the first free tool for editing and testing regular expressions (RegEx) that runs on Mac OSX, Windows, Linux, and online (as far as I can determine). Pretty cool, considering it only took 60 minutes of work to convert the online application to a desktop program and add update notifications.

You can install the desktop version of RegExr here. Or, you can use the online version at regexr.com.

Next up, I plan to add support for testing replace functions, and then a proper lexer.

Grant Skinner

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7 Comments

  1. mybeky March 31, 2008 at 12:33pm

    it’s fantastic！！

  2. Jens Wegar September 1, 2008 at 1:23am

    The online version of this tool saved me a lot of time over the weekend, so I’m very happy I found a desktop version of it also. Thanks! Hope you have time to develop it further. One feature that comes to mind for the AIR app would be the ability to store the expressions you create in a side panel for later use.

  3. Jason Merrill March 5, 2009 at 12:12pm

    Love it! This is a lifesaver, thank you! I am using the AIR version.

  4. dJaffa November 24, 2009 at 10:20am

    I just found your site today, and was able to solve two problems. You site might save me 100’s of hours a year, by making it possible to make some of our developers fish for themselves.

  5. cute programmer May 20, 2011 at 10:47am

    hey thanks for this one!!! i never read the whole description so i did not noticed the link to the desktop version.

    Thanks!

  6. Mansoorkhan TK February 18, 2014 at 11:54pm

    Thanks for both online version and desktop version. This tool helped in updating SQL statements.

  7. Chad Baker April 28, 2014 at 10:10am

    I can not figure out how to get ahold of the desktop version of RegExr version 2…

    I see your comment above with link to http://gskinner.com/RegExr/desktop/, but I can’t see on that page how to download the desktop version. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks!

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