The Regulator Alternatives

The Regulator is described as 'Advanced Regular expressions testing tool, featuring syntax highlighting and web-service integration with Regexlib.coms database of online regular expressions' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to The Regulator for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Mac, Linux and Self-Hosted apps. The best The Regulator alternative is regular expressions 101, which is free. Other great apps like The Regulator are RegExr, Expresso, RegexMate and Wildcard.

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  1. Regex101 is a powerful, online regular expression tool with extensive support for multiple languages including PHP, PCRE, Python and JavaScript.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. RegExr icon
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    RegExr.com is an online tool to learn, build, and test Regular Expressions. It was created by Grant Skinner and the nice people at gskinner.com.

    44 RegExr alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Expresso icon
     36 likes

    The award-winning Expresso editor is equally suitable as a teaching tool for the beginning user of regular expressions or as a full-featured development environment for the experienced programmer or web designer with an extensive knowledge of regular expressions.

    34 Expresso alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. RegexMate icon
     2 likes

    RegexMate offers seamless regex crafting and testing on macOS and iOS. Its minimalist interface provides an instant live preview, and users can save their expressions into a library for quick reference. A comprehensive guide with tutorials is always accessible, with light and dark mode options.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5. Wildcard icon
     2 likes

    Wildcard gives you a nice and simple to use interface to test/practice regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  6. RegexBuddy icon
     45 likes

    RegexBuddy is your perfect companion for working with regular expressions. Learning, creating, understanding, testing, using and saving regular expressions has never been easier.

    44 RegexBuddy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Regex Generator is a tool to generate simple regular expressions. The goal is that people with less experience can create regex smoothly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. RegExp icon
     1 like

    The only one Regular Expression tester you need, that will help you to test your regular expressions in flavors:

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Regulex icon
     5 likes

    Regulex is an open-source, regular expression parser and visualizer. It's available online, can be embedded in other websites, or the code can be self-hosted as a JavaScript tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Regex Hero icon
     13 likes

    .NET regular expression tester with instantaneous highlighting, code completion, and C# and VB.NET code generation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. RegexPal icon
     6 likes

    An online JavaScript regular expression tester. Enter a regex expression and test data and determine if matches are made.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12. Patterns icon
     7 likes

    Patterns is a simple yet powerful tool for working with regular expressions. Build great patterns quickly and effortlessly with syntax coloring and with matching and replacing occurring in real time.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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