How to quickly test your Regular Expressions

Leo Gutiérrez
3 min readJun 18, 2021

Today I responded a Tweet asking on what was the regex for a particular scenario:

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I wrote it quickly without testing, after I got my coffee ready, I thought on how I would test this regular expression, I found several ways on doing that, this is what this post is about, how to quickly test your regular expressions to see if they are correct or not.

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Leo Gutiérrez

Hi! I am Leonardo Gutiérrez R., a passionate software developer, I hope you find the content in this blog interesting. I write about IT related stuff.