RegexBuddy is your perfect companion for working with regular expressions. Easily create regular expressions that match exactly what you want. Clearly understand complex regexes written by others. Quickly test any regex on sample strings and files, preventing mistakes on actual data. Debug without guesswork by stepping through the actual matching process. Use the regex with source code snippets automatically adjusted to the particulars of your programming language. Collect and document libraries of regular expressions for future reuse. GREP (search-and-replace) through files and folders. Integrate RegexBuddy with your favorite searching and editing tools for instant access.
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What`s new:
RegexBuddy 4.5.0 – 14 October 2015
New features:
- Applications: Microsoft Edge.
- Applications: PCRE 10.20.
- Applications: PHP versions through 5.6.14.
- Applications: PowerShell operators as a separate application next to PowerShell, to better handle that PowerShell operators only allow case sensitivity to be controlled outside the regex and that they're case insensitive by default, unlike the Regex class in .NET.
- Applications: Python 3.5.
- Applications: R 3.2.2 (no changes to regex flavor).
- Applications: std::regex in C++Builder 10 Seattle.
- Applications: std::regex in Visual C++ 2015.
- Applications: XRegExp 3.
- Aspects: When shorthands match Unicode characters, the negated shorthands may not exclude those Unicode characters, even though they should.
- Copy/Paste/Use: C++11 raw string literals.
- Options: ECMAScript flavor choice for .NET.
Improvements:
- Create: Always treat unescaped hyphens that are not at the start or end of the character class as an error in Helpful mode.
- GREP: Edit button's drop-down menu should list "open all matched files in EditPad" when the cursor does not point to a file but the GREP panel does show matched files.
- Preferences|GREP: The option to hide (permanently exclude) hidden files and folders from the GREP panel no longer affects system files and folders, for which there is now a separate option.
- Windows 10: New look for the menus and toolbars on Windows 10 to add a bit more contrast to RegexBuddy's user interface.
Bug fixes:
- Aspects: For flavors that treat invalid two-digit backreferences as a single-digit backreference and a literal rather than as an error, such two-digit backreferences were incorrectly treated as an error if there were enough capturing groups for the same two-digit backreference to be valid if its second digit were zero.
- E.g. \23 would be treated as an error if there were 20 or more but fewer than 23 capturing groups. \23 was correctly treated as \2 followed by a literal 3 if there were fewer than 20 capturing groups. This affected the JGsoft, Java, and XPath flavors.
- Convert: Replacement strings that contained backreferences preceded and followed by literal text that has characters that require escapes to be added in the converted replacement string sometimes had the backreference escaped too.
- Copy: Copying a regex or replacement string that starts with a backslash or a quote as a JavaScript string failed to escape the initial backslash or quote.
- Create: Insert Backreference dialog selected the group after the cursor if you entirely selected a group inside the regex and that group was immediately followed by another; there was no issue if you clicked inside the group you want as the dialog's label instructs.
- GREP: Open matched files in EditPad does not open all matched files when EditPad is not yet running.
- Options: Support string syntax did not work for applications where that option only affects replacement strings.
- Regex: A conditional with no contents and no closing parenthesis followed by free whitespace or a comment and nothing else triggered an access violation.
- Regex: Empty groups inside lookbehind using a flavor that does not support infinite repetition inside lookbehind caused a division by zero error.
- Test: \K did not work when used at the start of a superfluous non-capturing group.
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