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Sholmesy
Wow, exactly what I'm after. Didn't know I needed this til now.

Thanks!

lordelph
Looks promising - I found I couldn't edit sample text - anything I typed in the sample area was added to the end of the sample, not the caret position.
sourcesmith
http://www.regexplanet.com/ handles regex dialects for a dozen languages and allows them to be shared.
c0wb0yc0d3r
Wow! I need to remember to give this a try. I usually use https://regexr.com/. I like it because it usually works for all languages and it's served over https. That is always nice!

Edit: For what it is worth, you link serves over https, too. Just not by default.

cift
This seems very, very similar to an app called Expressions.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/expressions/id913158085?mt=1...

macdev
While the UI was heavily inspired from Expressions, Expressions does have more features including saving expressions locally. If you want a more feature-full app, then definitely get Expressions. Regxr was just a little project put together over a couple of days for fun, and it's truly not an original idea, haha
emkaka
Unfortunately the interface has been copied almost 1:1 from Expressions which is not fair.
kennydude
Expressions is also in Setapp which is nice
emkaka
Yes, it's a plagiary.
goerz
I‘ve tried a whole bunch of nicely designed regex apps (and this one seems to fit in), but the one feature that is absolutely essential is support for different regex dialects. Often, they only provide the dialect for the specific language they’re implemented in, and often that’s not even specified. What I usually want to do is to track down subtle differences between Perl, Python, gnu grep, and vim
emkaka
Author deleted my comment last time. It was:

Unfortunately the interface has been copied almost 1:1 from Expressions which is not fair.

Yes, this is plagiary.