Engineering

Regex Generator

Regular expressions are powerful and famously hard to write from memory. Describe what you want to match in plain English and get a working regex back, along with a breakdown of what each part does and a few test strings that should and shouldn't match.

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How it works

  1. 01 Describe in plain English what the pattern should match.
  2. 02 Pick the flavour that matches your language or tool.
  3. 03 Generate the expression and read the token-by-token breakdown.
  4. 04 Test it against the example strings before shipping it.

Frequently asked questions

Pick the one matching your runtime: JavaScript for browser/Node, Python for re, PCRE for PHP/grep-style tools, Go for Go's RE2. Syntax like lookbehind isn't supported everywhere, so the flavour matters.

Yes. Paste the expression instead of a description and ask what it does, and you'll get a plain-English breakdown.

Always test against real data. Regex edge cases are subtle, and a pattern that looks right can still over- or under-match.

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