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RegexBuddy - Learn, create, understand, test, use and store regular expressions
RegexMagic - Generate regular expressions
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RegexBuddy Discount for PowerGREP Users

Regex Made Easy

RegexBuddy is your perfect companion for working with regular expressions. Easily create regular expressions that match exactly what you want. Clearly understand complex regexes written by others. Quickly test any regex on sample strings and files, preventing mistakes on actual data. Debug without guesswork by stepping through the actual matching process. Use the regex with source code snippets automatically adjusted to the particulars of your programming language. Collect and document libraries of regular expressions for future reuse. GREP (search-and-replace) through files and folders. Integrate RegexBuddy with your favorite searching and editing tools for instant access.

Learn all there is to know about regular expressions from RegexBuddy's comprehensive documentation and regular expression tutorial.

RegexBuddy’s plain English regex tree makes it easy to understand exactly what a regular expression does

RegexBuddy’s plain English regex tree makes it easy to understand exactly what a regular expression does

RegexBuddy Compared with RegexMagic

Both RegexBuddy and RegexMagic are designed to make it easy to create regular expressions for use with PowerGREP and a variety of other applications and programming languages. But the approach is totally different.

The main design goal behind RegexBuddy is to make it easy to learn and work with the regular expression syntax. RegexBuddy makes no attempt to shield you from the complexities of regular expressions. Instead, it tries to make your life easier by clearly explaining and showing you how a regex works, or doesn't. As such, RegexBuddy is primarily of interest to people who already know or who want to learn the ins and outs of regular expressions. Complete beginners can use RegexBuddy, but there will be a learning curve.

RegexMagic has the opposite goal. With RegexMagic, you don't deal with the regular expression syntax at all. Instead, you work with high-level RegexMagic "patterns" to tell RegexMagic what you want. RegexMagic generates complete regular expressions for you. As such, RegexMagic is primarily of interest to people who want to quickly generate regular expressions, without learning (much) about regular expressions as a technology. Experts will find RegexMagic useful for specific tasks such as generating a regex that matches numbers between 256 and 512. There's nothing difficult about the regex 51[0-2]|50[0-9]|[34][0-9]{2}|2[6-9][0-9]|25[6-9], but it is a chore to create.

The best deal is of course to get both products. Use RegexMagic to generate new regular expressions from scratch. RegexMagic makes that far easier than RegexBuddy. Use RegexBuddy to edit regular expressions written by other people. You can paste any regular expression into RegexBuddy, even if it's formatted as a literal string or regex in source code. RegexMagic cannot edit existing regular expressions, unless they were generated with RegexMagic and you have the RegexMagic file for them.

Get RegexBuddy at a Discount

If you have purchased PowerGREP in the past, you can buy RegexBuddy at the discounted price of US$ 29.95 instead of the regular US$ 39.95. To obtain the discount, please type in your RegexBuddy user ID and email address below.

You can only buy RegexBuddy at the discounted price directly from Just Great Software, and only by entering your PowerGREP user ID below. The order form will clearly indicate the discount.

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Bundle Discount for PowerGREP and RegexBuddy

If you haven't purchased PowerGREP yet, you can buy RegexBuddy and PowerGREP as a bundle, and get the same discount. You can find the bundle pricing on PowerGREP's ordering page.

"RegexBuddy is exactly the extra tool I needed. It takes away my uncertainty as a PowerGREP user.

"Regexes are extremely powerful, but RegexBuddy shows quite well that their complexity can be tamed without degrading their performance!"

-- Vincent Vercauteren
   5 May 2004, Belgium

"Thank you for your excellent products! I use them all regularly and am very satisfied with them. I have PowerGREP, EditPad Pro, RegexBuddy, and RegexMagic. I consider them all essential tools, and a great value."

-- Brent Nelson
   27 August 2009, Texas, USA

 

 

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