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copied!<p>I'm kind of new to programming, so forgive me if this is terribly obvious (which would be welcome news).</p> <p>I do a fair amount of PHP development in my free time using pregmatch and writing most of my expressions using the free (open source?) Regex Tester.</p> <p>However frequently I find myself wanting to simply quickly extract something and the only way I know to do it is to write my expression and then script it, which is probably laughable, but welcome to my reality. :-)</p> <p>What I'd like is something like a simple text editor that I can feed my expression to (given a file or a buffer full of pasted text) and have it parse the expression and return a document with only the results.</p> <p>What I find is usually regex search/replace functions, as in Notepad++ I can easily find (and replace) all instances using an expression, but I simply don't know how to only extract it...</p> <p>And it's probably terribly obvious, can expression match only the inverse? Then I could use something like (just the expression I'm currently working on):</p> <pre><code><a href="/browse/0/b/-dbm/a/0-0/1200000([^/]*)/0.html">([^<]*)</a> </code></pre> <p>And replace everything that <em>doesn't</em> match with nothing. But I'm sure this is something common and simple, I'd really appreciate any poniters.</p> <p>FWIW I know grep and I <em>could</em> do it using that, but I'm hoping their are better gui'ified solution I'm simply ignorant of.</p> <p>Thanks.</p> <p>Zach</p> <hr> <p>What I was hoping for would be something that worked in a more standard set of gui tools (ie, the tools I might already be using). I appreciate all the responses, but using perl or vi or grep is what I was hoping to avoid, otherwise I would have just scripted it myself (of course I did) since their all relatively powerful, low-level tools.</p> <p>Maybe I wasn't clear enough. As a senior systems administrator the cli tools are familiar to me, I'm quite fond of them. Working at home however I find most of my time is spent in a gui, like Netbeans or Notepad++. I just figure there would be a simple way to achieve the regex based data extraction using those tools (since in these cases I'd already be using them).</p> <p>Something vaguely like what I was referring to would be <a href="http://www.lfmseek.com/rss/extractor.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this</a> which will take aa expression on the first line and a url on the second line and then extract (return) the data.</p> <p>It's ugly (I'll take it down after tonight since it's probably riddled with problems).</p> <p>Anyway, thanks for your responses. I appreciate it.</p>

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