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jcblitz
Yes it's a great tool, but this isn't exactly "news". Just Google rubular site:news.ycombinator.com
thibaut_barrere
It's certainly not new but worth sharing though.

I've been using it for a long time, yet I come across people that don't know about it in each consulting gig I do.

sammyo
Hacker News should consider a "best of" list of some sort. Consider the sidebar feature on Metafilter.
pspeter3
I agree, sometimes links posted on hacker news are just really old news
skrebbel
for me, these tools just underline how horrible regex syntax really is.
delano
Regex syntax can get nasty at times but after all these years it's still the best tool we've got for what it does.
rawsyntax
well.. any ideas on how to make it better? I think we all want better regex syntax.

Also, I don't necessarily think it's the syntax, but simply the power / complexity that regexes have.

mhartl
You can mitigate the horribleness by using x to enable multiline regexes and then include inline comments.
zefhous
One of my favorite things about Rubular is the "Make Permalink" feature. Paste the link as a comment above your regex and you can easily get back to the same place later.

The permalink includes your test string(s) and makes it really easy to see what was going on when you wrote it.

hjaltij
I use this all the time even when I'm writing code in other languages. Love it.
zquestz
Yeah this has been around for ages, not sure why this got reposted. Either way, this is still by far the best regexp site out on the net right now. There just isn't a better way to test your regexps.
smackjer
I use Rubular all the time, and it inspired me to build http://strfti.me.
SethWilson
Adding this tool to my bookmarks

Thanks for the heads up

tsigo
Looks good; great idea.
catilac
Oh wow I wish I knew about this sooner. More useful to me than rubular :)
erik_p
is it regular expression day on HN? Waiting for the inevitable Phplar (pheeplar) and Scalar :)
bstar
I've been using rubular since it's inception. There are lots of sites/apps for building regex's, but rubular has always been my goto guy. To the developer, thanks for an awesome site!