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Originally Posted by bob_ninja
bowerbird,
I use Java which has regular expressions capability. I plan to simply build some search/replace regexp patterns and allow a user to enter his/her own to customize according to individual preferences. Shouldn't be too bad. Actually most of the work is for interfaces, GUI and CLI.
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I personally use Vim text editor for performing power use of Regular Expressions.
Vim -
www.Vim.org - has Regular Expressions that are more powerful and better documented that Regular Expressions in Perl.
Vim has many advantages over the use of a programing language with RE support. The most notable advantage is that playing with REs in Vim (or its graphical version Gvim) is
interactive - you can try replacement like this:
<esc>:%substitute/string_to_replace/replacement_string/g<enter>
Then you inspect the results, use Undo if needed and try again.
If it works like intended you simply create a vim macro with that substitute command.
Please send a personal message to me if you are interested in using Vim.
It does not matter what operating system you use, there is version of Vim for it. Even if you use such obscure and/or specialized OS as Minix, QNX, NetBSD, Amiga OS (yes, the operating system for Commodore Amiga), or even Vista
There is also a very nice formatter for text called par.
see following link
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Awesome_text_formatter for description.