Expressions
By Apptorium
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Description
Expressions allows to play with regular expressions*. Just type your pattern and some text to test it. All the changes are updated while you're typing text or pattern. App highlights the syntax, so the pattern is easy-to-read and modify. If you use subexpressions (groups), you can highlight them by pressing cmd+shift+] (or [ – for decreasing the highlighted group number).
If you don't remember the regex syntax, just press cmd+r or click button in the top-right. You will get the reference sheet, so you don't have to remember everything.
The user interface is very minimalistic and non-distractive. By default the color is the same as your menubar, but you can always switch to dark or light mode (see: Preferences). You can also open app in beautiful full screen mode which is perfect when you want to focus or to demonstrate regular expressions to other people.
* Expressions uses ICU regular expression standard. More information you will find here: https://developer.apple.com/reference/foundation/nsregularexpression
What's New in Version 1.2.2
Fixed compatibility with macOS 10.11
Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Very helpful learning tool
I’m just starting to learn about regular expressions, and I’m very happy to have such a well-made native app to work with.
Great, minimial regex app
Simple and effective, with tasteful design. I’ve used web-based regex tools for years, but I was really happy to find a native one. Well done!
needs to visualize groups
I mislead myself when looking at the screenshots. I thought that the different colors were the differnt groups captured. I am always using regexes to extract a piece of info from within a larger pattern, so seeing the group color different, or explicitly listed, would make this tool more useful for me.
In the meantime, I found this instead: regex101.com
- $3.99
- Category: Developer Tools
- Updated: Feb 10, 2017
- Version: 1.2.2
- Size: 3.2 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Apptorium
- © 2016-2017 Apptorium
Compatibility: OS X 10.11 or later, 64-bit processor