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Visual Studio Add-in for testing regular expressions

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1 Dec 2010CPOL4 min read 39.7K   474   36  
An add-in for debugging and creating regular expression directly in Visual Studio
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Globalization;
using Microsoft.CSharp;
using System.IO;
using System.CodeDom;
using System.CodeDom.Compiler;
using RegexTester.Parsing;
using RegexTester.Parsing.CSharp;

namespace RegexTester
{
    public class RegexFinder
    {
        private IRegexFormatProvider formatProvider;

        public RegexFinder(IRegexFormatProvider formatProvider)
        {
            this.formatProvider = formatProvider;
        }

        public RegexFinder()
            : this(new CSharpRegexFormatProvider())
        {
        }

        public IRegexFindResults FindRegex(string text)
        {
            Regex matchSyntaxRegex = formatProvider.GetSyntaxRegex();
            Match foundMatch = matchSyntaxRegex.Match(text);

            return formatProvider.GetRegexFindResults(foundMatch);
        }
    }

    public interface IRegexFindResults
    {
        bool FoundMatch { get; }
        bool IsMatchOnlyRegex { get; }
        string ToMatch { get; set; }
        string ToMatchExpression { get; }
        string ReplacePattern { get; set; }
        string Regex { get; set; }
        RegexOptions RegexOptions { get; set; }
        bool IsEdit { get; }
        int Index { get; }
        int Length { get; }
        void ConvertToEdit();
        void ConvertToDisplay();
        string GetRegexString();
    }
}

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.NET developer. I wanted to be first an astronaut, then a jet pilot, but when I got a Commodore 64 for Christmas I never looked back. Also I would never have qualified for the first two things and everybody knows computer programmers get all the girls.

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