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Given a regular expression, is there a library or webservice which will give the human/non-programmer an English description? For example, .+ => one or more ... Home Public Questions Tags Users Companies Collectives ExploreCollectives Teams StackOverflowforTeams –Startcollaboratingandsharingorganizationalknowledge. CreateafreeTeam WhyTeams? Teams CreatefreeTeam Collectives™onStackOverflow Findcentralized,trustedcontentandcollaboratearoundthetechnologiesyouusemost. Learnmore Teams Q&Aforwork Connectandshareknowledgewithinasinglelocationthatisstructuredandeasytosearch. Learnmore RegularexpressiontoEnglish[closed] AskQuestion Asked 11years,7monthsago Modified 6years,1monthago Viewed 37ktimes 42 9 Closed.ThisquestiondoesnotmeetStackOverflowguidelines.Itisnotcurrentlyacceptinganswers. Wedon’tallowquestionsseekingrecommendationsforbooks,tools,softwarelibraries,andmore.Youcaneditthequestionsoitcanbeansweredwithfactsandcitations. Closed6yearsago. Improvethisquestion Givenaregularexpression,istherealibraryorwebservicewhichwillgivethehuman/non-programmeranEnglishdescription? Forexample,.+=>oneormorecharacters regex Share Follow editedOct17,2011at18:09 PeterMortensen 30k2121goldbadges100100silverbadges124124bronzebadges askedNov25,2010at7:57 EsbenSkovPedersenEsbenSkovPedersen 4,31822goldbadges3030silverbadges4646bronzebadges 1 1 Considertomovetosoftwarerecs.stackexchange.com – MichaelFreidgeim Sep13,2019at22:58 Addacomment  |  5Answers 5 Sortedby: Resettodefault Highestscore(default) Trending(recentvotescountmore) Datemodified(newestfirst) Datecreated(oldestfirst) 77 Thereisanexcellentsitecalledhttp://regex101.comthatdoesexactlythat,aswell.Italsoprovidesaccesstodifferentregexengines,allowsyoutosaveanddebugyourregexesandteststrings...verynice. Share Follow editedApr17,2015at15:06 answeredMar27,2013at21:42 TimPietzckerTimPietzcker 315k5656goldbadges486486silverbadges546546bronzebadges 1 1 Perfectsite.Lovedtheunittestsithas... – ViniciusPires Dec2,2014at12:08 Addacomment  |  22 Idon'tknowaboutawebsite,butRegexBuddywilldothatforyou. Share Follow answeredNov25,2010at7:58 TimPietzckerTimPietzcker 315k5656goldbadges486486silverbadges546546bronzebadges 5 isitonlyforpurchasenofreeversionisavailable? – XMen Nov25,2010at8:10 1 That'scorrect,butit'ssoworthit.AndI'mnotaffiliatedwithJGSoftinanyway. – TimPietzcker Nov25,2010at8:15 SurelydoableforFree!!Evenifadvertisingsupported!! – WillHancock Mar27,2013at18:48 @WillHancock:You'reright.I'veaddedanotheranswer. – TimPietzcker Mar27,2013at21:43 ThisisthefirstsoftwareproductIeverpaidfor.AndIdon'tregretit. – MawgsaysreinstateMonica Jul16,2021at10:10 Addacomment  |  10 I'mabigfanofRegExr.Similartoregex101,buthasmorefeaturesandanicerinterfaceinmyopinion. Share Follow answeredMay26,2016at20:14 user6058447user6058447 0 Addacomment  |  3 Thisisanoldquestion,butIwaslookingforsomethinglikethismyselfafewminutesago,sohereisthesolutionIfoundwithaquickGooglesearch. http://www.myezapp.com/apps/dev/regexp/show.ws Theexplanationisalittleterse,butworkedwellenoughformyneeds. Hereinalinktoascreenshot(notenoughreputationtopostimages). Screenshotofasimpleregexexample ItriedTimPeitzcker'ssuggestedregex101.com,butlikedthesimpleformatofthissitebetter. Share Follow editedAug7,2015at5:51 MohitKanwar 2,80566goldbadges3636silverbadges5656bronzebadges answeredAug7,2015at5:37 comcccomcc 3122bronzebadges 0 Addacomment  |  2 RegexCoachcandothis,thoughitisadesktopappratherthansomethingcallablehttp://weitz.de/regex-coach/ Share Follow answeredNov25,2010at8:02 PaulDixonPaulDixon 289k4949goldbadges307307silverbadges343343bronzebadges Addacomment  |  Nottheansweryou'relookingfor?Browseotherquestionstaggedregexoraskyourownquestion. 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