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Expression Editor

ExpressionEditor is a Qt4 based application intended to help in testing and writing regular expressions (regexps). The application provides both text-based and graphical methods of editing regexps and will support PCRE, POSIX Extended and Qt4 format regexps. It is available under the terms of the GPLv3.0+.

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[6th Feb 2012] Some code restructuring, and enabling of C++11, will work on getting
[6th Feb 2012] Enable anti-aliasing and align to pixel grid - hopefully
[5th Feb 2012] Lost the signal/slot to update expression, fixed.
[5th Feb 2012] Removed welcome page
[5th Feb 2012] Restored automatic calculation of the input height for the text-based
[5th Feb 2012] Do not display escape characters in the graphical view
[5th Feb 2012] Unified the link between MainWindow and the test widgets, restructured
[4th Feb 2012] Do not allow repeats after a T_GROUPING_OPEN or some others, also added
[4th Feb 2012] Automatically resize rows to accommodate generated content
[3rd Feb 2012] Qt Parser: Bad Repetition Syntax
[3rd Feb 2012] Qt Parser should work on a blacklist system for where repeat tokens can
[2nd Feb 2012] Forgot license headers
[2nd Feb 2012] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/aelliott/expressioneditor
[2nd Feb 2012] Handle PCRE library in Windows CmakeLists
[2nd Feb 2012] Reintroduced a simple test input testing widget
[19th Sep 2011] Make sure the viewports for the visualisation keep a sensible scene rect
[6th Sep 2011] Visualisation support for comments
[5th Sep 2011] Visualisation support for named capturing groups
[5th Sep 2011] Initial PCRE parser in place, stubs added for ICU/POSIX ERE
[2nd Sep 2011] Forgot one line...

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[2nd Feb 2012] New Lexing Parsers and What They Mean for Expression Editor
[29th Jul 2010] Back to Work
[24th Jan 2010] Expression Editor Update (2)
[24th Dec 2009] Expression Editor Update
[7th Dec 2009] A New Project

External Links

http://github.com/aelliott/expressioneditor

New Lexing Parsers and What They Mean for Expression Editor

Thu, 02 Feb 2012

Back in September (prior to some uni work that rather soaked up my free time) I pushed a fairly major restructuring of Expression Editor to the repository. Functionally it has meant a bit of a step back, but the new structure does mean some significant improvements to how it works now, and provides scope for [...]

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Back to Work

Thu, 29 Jul 2010

Well, been a while since the last blog post I’ve written, and a similar stretch of time since I really got much work done on ExpressionEditor. But as you might have guessed since the blog is winding back into life, so to is my work on EE. Changes So Far I’m still working my way [...]

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Expression Editor Update (2)

Sun, 24 Jan 2010

Since I’ve had some more time to work on Expression Editor recently I thought it was about time I wrote another update for the progress of the project, and some related news that affects it. From Last Time… In the previous post I noted a few areas in progress and some that I wanted to [...]

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Expression Editor Update

Thu, 24 Dec 2009

A fair bit of progress has been made since my last blog entry so I thought I’d note a few things that have landed in the repository and a few things that I intend to add at a later date. Drag and Drop Initial support for drag and drop editing has been added. You can [...]

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