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Recently Josh wrote a blog post about regex and it brought the thought of having an on-hand regex tester around.

When I am testing regexes I usually just pop open a python console to test my regex using the built in regex lib(I actually use the python console to test a lot of things). However, when I want something a bit more visual I go to the web and use Rubular. It is a Ruby regular expression editor, but it normally serves my purposes just fine for languages besides ruby(as I don’t find myself coding much ruby). When using the regexes tested there in other languages you may need to escape certain characters or handle some other language specific funkiness, but its still pretty great to get you on the right track. So you should check it out!