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- regex-playground
- description
- Learn, test, and debug regular expressions with real-time matching, explanations, and common patterns. Perfect for developers learning regex or debugging complex patterns.
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Regex Playground
Interactive regular expression learning and testing tool.
Usage
regex "pattern" "test string"Features
- 🎯 Real-time matching
- 📖 Plain English explanation
- 🔍 Match groups extraction
- 📋 Common patterns library
- 🧪 Test cases generator
Example
Input: regex "(\w+)@(\w+)\.(\w+)" "test@example.com"
Output:
✓ Match: test@example.com
Group 1: test
Group 2: example
Group 3: com
Explanation:
- (\w+) - capture word characters (test)
- @ - literal @
- (\w+) - capture word characters (example)
- \. - literal dot
- (\w+) - capture word characters (com)Common Patterns
| Pattern | Meaning | Example | |
|---|---|---|---|
\d+ | One or more digits | 123 | |
\w+ | Word characters | hello_123 | |
[a-z] | Letter range | a, b, c | |
^start | Starts with | start... | |
end$ | Ends with | ...end | |
| `a | b` | OR | a or b |
a* | Zero or more a | '', a, aaa | |
a+ | One or more a | a, aaa |
Commands
regex explain <pattern>- Explain pattern in plain Englishregex test <pattern> <string>- Test pattern against stringregex library- Show common patternsregex generate <type>- Generate test cases (email, url, phone, etc.)
Use Cases
- Debug regex in code
- Learn regex by seeing matches
- Validate input patterns
- Extract data from strings