regular expression question (re module)

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Oct 16, 2008, at 11:25 PM, Steve Holden wrote:

> Pat wrote:
>> Faheem Mitha wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I need to match a string of the form
>>>
>>> capital_letter underscore capital_letter number
>>>
>>> against a string of the form
>>>
>>> anything capital_letter underscore capital_letter number
>>> some_stuff_not_starting with a number
>>>
>> <snip>
>>> DUKE00001_plateD_A12.CEL.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance. Please cc me with any reply.
>>>                                                                 
>>> Faheem.
>>>
>>
>> While I can't provide you with an answer, I can say that I've been  
>> using
>> RegExBuddy (for Windows, about $40, 90 day money back guarantee,
>> http://www.regexbuddy.com/) for quite a few months now and it's  
>> greatly
>> helped me with creating/learning/debugging regexps.  You put in your
>> regexp in the top field and all the possibilities in the bottom  
>> field.
>> Whatever matches is instantly highlighted.  You keep modifying your  
>> RE
>> until only the correct matches are highlighted. Talk about instant
>> gratification!  No, I'm in no way affiliated with this company.
>>
>> There's also a free *IX version that's quite similar to RegExBuddy  
>> but I
>> don't have the name since I'm writing this while on a Windows  
>> platform.
>> -- 
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>
> Or you could use the Kodos tool, written in Python and well worth a
> trial since it's free. Google is, as always, your friend in locating  
> it.


I use this one as my regex playground:
http://cthedot.de/retest/