Thanks Charles,



Believe me, taking a quick look at the Regex Magic and Buddy, they looks very powerful and I like the fact of how they highlight all parts to be matched.



Expresso looks good but I am under the impression that you need to be a more Regex experience developer to take the best of that tool.



The Just-Great-Software tools feels like a more intuitive tool, even though there is no a trial or demo version, the money back policy looks good and also the price is very affordable for such a tool, now the question is which one to choose Regexbuddy or RegexMagic?

Edhy Rijo

Whatever tool you use notice there is a regex tutorial link on the ultrapico page.

I think I'd try RegexMagic. It looks really accessible, with the ability to build regex patterns without having to actually know regex (i.e. they've abstracted out many pattern matching concepts to a higher level...you can search for a SSN rather than having to know the regex ([0-9]{3}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{4}). It also can generate code snippets for you. And there is a free trial... Sounds like its worth a try to me!



http://www.regexmagic.com/

http://www.regexmagic.com/download.html



Regex Buddy is more useful if you already know regex (or want to learn it) and it doesn't have a free trial (but does have a nice money back guarantee).



My guess is that you'd still want to learn regex, but regex magic might make it possible to start using regex without the hours of trying to figure out how to build a pattern, which might actually increase the speed you learn it.

Hi Greg and all,



Just to let you know that today I finally had the opportunity to test a Regex match and replace and with the help of the RegexMagic I was able to create the correct pattern and replaced the previous flat condition which had to match several characters using String.Replace().Replace(), etc.



Once again, thanks for the contribution and push nicely for us to move in the right direction

Edhy Rijo

Glad to hear it! Sounds like RegexMagic is quite helpful.