{"id":396,"date":"2010-05-19T16:04:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T06:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software-testing.com.au\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2010-05-20T15:52:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T05:52:17","slug":"building-regular-expressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/2010\/05\/19\/building-regular-expressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Building regular expressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my testing gets technical, there are a lot of things that I only have to grapple with infrequently.  Regular expressions are one of those in-again, out-again things for which my expertise varies depending on when you ask me.  Today&#8217;s Ruby hacking saw me find <a href=\"http:\/\/gskinner.com\/RegExr\/\">RegExr<\/a> which helps you build and test regular expressions, as well as having a lot of ready-to-go samples built into it.\u00a0 You can also download it as an Air application if you need it locally.<\/p>\n<p>I always seem to end up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regular-expressions.info\/quickstart.html\">regularexpressions.info<\/a> as well to get help, but had issues with their regular expression tester today.\u00a0 While the bugs were a hassle, it helped me in a way, because testing your regular expressions with a few different regular expression testers is always a good idea if you think you might need to use them in multiple environments or tools.<\/p>\n<p>Coupled with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jedit.org\/\">JEdit<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/ruby-lang.org\/\">Ruby<\/a>, regular expressions are a powerful part of your tester toolkit.<\/p>\n<p>What other tools for regular expressions are you using?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my testing gets technical, there are a lot of things that I only have to grapple with infrequently. Regular expressions are one of those in-again, out-again things for which my expertise varies depending on when you ask me. Today&#8217;s Ruby hacking saw me find RegExr which helps you build and test regular expressions, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,92,36,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-testing","category-technical-testing","category-test-tools","category-tool-assisted-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}