Simple Regex Matcher

[samflores]

I've just made a simple workflow to test whether a Regular Expression matches a given string.

 

 

You type the match keyword followed by the regex to test against everything that comes after.

 

I hope someone else find it useful.

 

Here's the download link: http://cl.ly/Og94

 

Any bug or feature requests, please ping me at https://twitter.com/samflores.

 

[_mk_]

Thanks. Validating regular expressions will be a lot more fun with your workflow.

[noahrc]

Very useful, thanks!

[Don Dahl]

I've just made a simple workflow to test whether a Regular Expression matches a given string.

 

 

You type the match keyword followed by the regex to test against everything that comes after.

 

I hope someone else find it useful.

 

Here's the download link: http://cl.ly/Og94

 

Any bug or feature requests, please ping me at https://twitter.com/samflores.

 

Hi mate.

I'm not using twitter so i'll do a feature request here.

This workflow could be very useful to me if it worked the other way around. I'm not sure if it's a good idea or even possible at all, but for regex newbies as my self, it'd help a lot!

How about typing like "match 13,99" and the workflow would then output a regex string which will match the input? Imo that would make the workflow amazing

 

Good work though

[spud]

How about typing like "match 13,99" and the workflow would then output a regex string which will match the input? Imo that would make the workflow amazing

 

This should be more obvious, but that would be virtually impossible to do. If you said "match 13,99" what pattern exactly are you matching?

• 5 characters of any sort?
• 2 characters of any sort + any punctuation mark + 2 characters of any sort?
• 2 numbers + comma + 2 numbers?
• Any number of numbers + (period or comma or semicolon) + any number of characters?

There are simply too many patterns that could match that output, and without human intervention, no software would know which one satisfies your needs. But it's a lovely idea. 

[Don Dahl]

This should be more obvious, but that would be virtually impossible to do. If you said "match 13,99" what pattern exactly are you matching?

• 5 characters of any sort?
• 2 characters of any sort + any punctuation mark + 2 characters of any sort?
• 2 numbers + comma + 2 numbers?
• Any number of numbers + (period or comma or semicolon) + any number of characters?

There are simply too many patterns that could match that output, and without human intervention, no software would know which one satisfies your needs. But it's a lovely idea. 

 

Oh well that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for elaborating! Perhaps i should stop being lazy and just RTFM! 

[nschirmer]

This appears to be broken now... at least for me. Getting this in Console.app:

 

12/13/13 4:17:26.893 AM Alfred Workflow[86420]: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError) [query: (\d+)[.,](\d+) R$ 13,99]

  ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.CEDCD1E4-EE40-4BB5-8711-636173060637/ruby-1.8/gems/plist-3.1.0/lib/plist/parser.rb:91:in `scan'

  ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.CEDCD1E4-EE40-4BB5-8711-636173060637/ruby-1.8/gems/plist-3.1.0/lib/plist/parser.rb:91:in `parse'

  ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.CEDCD1E4-EE40-4BB5-8711-636173060637/ruby-1.8/gems/plist-3.1.0/lib/plist/parser.rb:29:in `parse_xml'

  ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.CEDCD1E4-EE40-4BB5-8711-636173060637/alfred.rb:21:in `plist'

  ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.CEDCD1E4-EE40-4BB5-8711-636173060637/alfred.rb:26:in `bundle_id'

  ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.CEDCD1E4-EE40-4BB5-8711-636173060637/alfred.rb:10:in `initialize'

[politicus]

Not working for me either. 

Get nothing in the console.log.