RegX Application Chrome

A lightweight and speedy regular expression tool that focuses on user experience and highlights replacements.

Latest Version

Version

0.2.1

Update

January 9, 2013

Size

52.02KiB

Developer

RegX Application

RegX is a regular expression tool that provides a great way to do search and replace on a block of text. The actual regex operation is performed in a separate thread using an HTML5 worker so that the app never freezes or slows down even on complicated expressions or long blocks of text.

Features:
- Replaced matches are highlighted in the output.
- By pressing the execute button or hitting the enter key, the current output will be moved to the input box.
- The input and output boxes scroll together so that they can be more easily compared side-by-side.

Still to come:
- Provide flags for things such as case insensitive searches.
- Improve the input/output comparison so that it better compares lines.
- Highlight matches
- Save search/replace patterns for re-use

Changelog:
- v0.1.0
- - Initial Release
- v0.2.0
- - The regex can't be executed while the background process is running or if there's an error. The Execute button will gray out to signify this.
- v0.2.1
- - Updated the manifest to v2
- - Fixed the way escape sequences are done in the replacement so \\\
should render now as \
rather than as a slash followed by a line break.

Source Manifest.json

{"update_url":"http://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx",\t"manifest_version": 2,\t\t"name": "RegX",\t"version": "0.2.1",\t"description": "A lightweight and speedy regular expression tool that focuses on user experience and highlights replacements.",\t\t"icons": {\t\t"128": "res/icon128.png",\t\t"48": "res/icon48.png",\t\t"16": "res/icon16.png"\t},\t\t"incognito": "split",\t"offline_enabled": true,\t\t"app": {\t\t"launch": {\t\t\t"local_path": "regx.html"\t\t}\t},\t\t"permissions": [\t]}