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Regular Expression Testing
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PyScripter provides for integrated regular expression testing. From the View
menu select IDE
Windows, Regular Expression Tester to show the following window.
In this window you can type a regular expression and the search text and then press the Execute
button to see the matched text and the value of each group of the regular expression. If you use
the "findall" search type (see options below) then you can examine all matches found by using
the spin edit control in the matches section.
Buttons on the Toolbar
Clear
Clears all the information entered.
Options
Allows to specify the various options of the re Python module such as IGNORECASE, VERBOSE
etc. as well as whether you want to use the search, match or findall function of the regular
expression objects. For more information look at the Python help file in the "re (standard
module)" page.
The "Auto Execute" option determines whether the regular expression is executed every time the
regular expression or the search text is changed.
Execute
Executes the search using the options specified and shows the results. There is no need to
press if the "Auto Execute" option explained above is checked.
Help on re
Shows information about the re Python module and the syntax of regular expressions from the
Python help file.
Note:
For more fully-featured regular expression testing you can use other more specialized programs
such as Kodos or Kiki. You can easily integrate such
programs with PyScripter as External
Tools.