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    Posted: 08 June 2005 at 11:19am

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At one time, I saw a small utility that would take a regular expression as input and attempt to describe it in "Plain English".  I am unable to find that utility.  Has anyone seen anything like that?

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Was it the "RegEx Coach"?
http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/
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Roberto,

It wasn't but I am going to check it out right now!

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There's also RegExBuddy (http://www.regexbuddy.com), a Windows utility, and a set of libraries (Perl I think, could be wrong) called YAPE::Regex::Explain.
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Roberto,

The RegEx coach works very well ... am going to look at RegExBuddy later.

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