What is this website?

This website is a programmer's tool to generate regular expression from text. You can input any string and use the code output in PHP, Perl, Java, Javascript, C++, C#, Visual Basic.NET, Pascal, Python, etc. Instead of trying to build the regular expression, you start off with the string that you want to search. You paste the text into the site, click Show Matches and the site finds recognisable patterns in your string. You then select the patterns that you are interested in and it writes a fully fledged program that extracts those patterns from that string. You then copy the program into your editor or IDE and play with it to integrate it into your program.

This site was created in the absence of txt2re that I used to use. txt2re.com has been offline for quite sometime and the current txt2re.com is nothing but a shell and it seems to have been taken over by a domain squatter. Finding a regular expression could be time consuming and I've decided to make this tool publicly available for free at no charge with no ads, similar to the original txt2re. Since I'm working with more than one programming language and each language seem to have a different way of doing it, I made the output available in several different languages and hopefully this is beneficial for others as well.