Regularity For Mac

Regular expressions (also known as regexp or regex) are specially crafted text strings devised to help when you need to create complex search patterns.

They are frequently used in software development and text editing when one has to quickly find multiple instances of a given search criteria against a large document or dataset.

Another use case is for rapidly and effortlessly extracting info from large text files such as logs and an app's source code with the help of a cleverly crafted matching pattern.

Regularity is a free tool designed to help you build custom regular expressions from the ground up and test them against a text of your choice.

The Regularity app features a clean and double-pane-based user interface, which enables you to input regular expressions at the top of its main screen and to view the content they match in the test zone below.

Moreover, after starting up the app, you are welcomed by the Search module which will help you effortlessly build your regular expression and input a text string to help you test it in real-time.

You can switch to the Replace module via the left sidebar. Here, you can replace parts of your test text block using your just devised regular expression.

The Regularity utility also comes with a built-in documentation module specially included for beginners who want to dive right in creating and testing their regular expressions, with little to no previous regex knowledge.

Regularity also comes with inbuilt full-screen support, which proved quite helpful during the testing period as we were able to run it in full-screen mode on a second screen and working on our review on our main display.

Consequently, this should be a significant advantage for software developers who require a regex tester utility running on an extra screen at all times.

To sum it all up, Regularity is a clean looking and user-friendly app for building and testing regular expressions on a Mac. Moreover, it can also be used as a powerful regex-based find and replace tool for quickly replacing strings in a text block.