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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Testing Regular Expression on OS-X
Date: 26 Nov 2013 16:12:57 GMT
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On 2013-11-26, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Is there an easy way to test a regular expression on OS-X ?
>
> For instance, with the test such as:
>
> /^Return-Path:.*onmicrosoft.com/
>
> I'd like to make sure it catches
>
> Return-Path: <AG02@uknationallottyboard.onmicrosoft.com>
>
> but not unwanted stuff.
>
> (this is added to the header checks in postfix).  So I'd like some easy
> way to test the regexp for syntax and see whether the match is made or not.

I usually end up using TextWrangler for that.

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