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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Testing Regular Expression on OS-X
Date: 26 Nov 2013 16:13:53 GMT
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On 2013-11-26, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <52944d38$0$17083$c3e8da3$40d4fd75@news.astraweb.com>,
>  JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
>> Is there an easy way to test a regular expression on OS-X ?
>
> What does this mean? There's no single OS-X regular expression 
> processor. Different applications use different regexp engines. So you 
> need to test the specific application.
 
TextWrangler covers most of those bases fairly well.

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