Rubular

a Ruby regular expression editor


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Rubular is a Ruby-based regular expression editor. It's a handy way to test regular expressions as you write them.

To start, enter a regular expression and a test string. Or you can try an example.
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Regex quick reference

[abc] A single character of: a, b, or c
[^abc] Any single character except: a, b, or c
[a-z] Any single character in the range a-z
[a-zA-Z] Any single character in the range a-z or A-Z
^ Start of line
$ End of line
\A Start of string
\z End of string
. Any single character
\s Any whitespace character
\S Any non-whitespace character
\d Any digit
\D Any non-digit
\w Any word character (letter, number, underscore)
\W Any non-word character
\b Any word boundary
(...) Capture everything enclosed
(a|b) a or b
a? Zero or one of a
a* Zero or more of a
a+ One or more of a
a{3} Exactly 3 of a
a{3,} 3 or more of a
a{3,6} Between 3 and 6 of a

options: i case insensitive m make dot match newlines x ignore whitespace in regex o perform #{...} substitutions only once

Rubular uses Ruby 2.5.9. Share questions/comments/issues @rubular. Made by Michael Lovitt @lovitt.