Latest inductee to my personal Developer Tool Hall of Fame
With apologies to Nelson, The Regex Coach is good software. It's an interactive regular expression authoring tool for Windows. Rather than typing a given regex directly into your Java/Python/Perl/C++-with-PCRE-library code and building your entire program, you type the expression into the top window, type a sample string in the bottom window, and if it matches, the matching part is highlighted. Such a time saver.
My one feature request: menu items that copy the regex to the clipboard, but properly escaped to paste into less regex-aware languages like Java. E.g., ([A-Za-z]+)\\\.[0-9]? would be copied for Java as ([A-Za-z]+)\\\\\\.[0-9]? (at least, I think that's right). The version of the feature that copies into a Bash command line would emit something like \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\.

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