List of regular expression software
The following is a list of software applications that use regular expressions. In some cases, only later versions of the applications use regular expressions.
Applications
| Name |
Genre |
RegEx flavor(s) |
RegEx algorithm |
Win |
Mac OS X |
Cross |
License |
| Adobe Dreamweaver |
HTML editor |
ECMAScript |
Traditional NFA |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Proprietary |
| Apache HTTP Server |
Web server |
PCRE |
Traditional NFA |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Apache License |
| BBEdit |
Text editor |
GREP |
? |
No |
Yes |
No |
Proprietary |
| Brief (text editor) |
Text editor |
ECMAScript, Brief |
Traditional NFA |
Yes |
No |
No |
Proprietary |
| Elvis |
Text editor |
? |
? |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Clarified Artistic License |
| EmEditor |
Text editor |
? |
? |
Yes |
No |
No |
Proprietary |
| GNU Grep |
Search and replace command-line utility |
GNU BRE/ERE |
POSIX NFA/DFA, depending on features used |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
GPL |
| Java |
Programming Language |
POSIX ERE variant [1] |
POSIX |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
GPL |
| Microsoft Visual Studio |
Integrated development environment |
Microsoft Visual Studio [2] |
? |
Yes |
No |
No |
Proprietary |
| Microsoft Word |
Word processor |
Microsoft Word [3] |
? |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Proprietary |
| Notepad++ |
Text editor |
POSIX ERE |
? |
Yes |
No |
No |
GPL |
| NoteTab |
Text editor |
PCRE |
Traditional NFA |
Yes |
No |
No |
Proprietary |
| Nvi |
Text editor |
POSIX ERE with extensions |
? |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
BSD |
| OmniOutliner |
Outliner |
? |
? |
No |
Yes |
No |
Proprietary |
| OpenOffice.org Base |
Relational database management system |
OpenOffice.org |
? |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
LGPL |
| OpenOffice.org Calc |
Spreadsheet |
OpenOffice.org |
? |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
LGPL |
| OpenOffice.org Writer |
Word processor |
OpenOffice.org |
? |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
LGPL |
| Oracle Database |
Relational database management system |
POSIX ERE with extensions |
Traditional NFA |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Proprietary |
| PSPad |
Text editor |
? |
? |
Yes |
No |
No |
Freeware |
| Ragel |
Parser generator |
? |
DFA |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
GPL |
| RegexBuddy |
RegEx builder and tester |
.NET, Java, Perl, PCRE, ECMAScript, Python, Ruby, Tcl ARE, POSIX BRE/ERE, GNU BRE/ERE, XML Schema, and XPath |
Traditional NFA |
Yes |
No |
No |
Proprietary |
| SubEthaEdit |
Text editor |
? |
? |
No |
Yes |
No |
Proprietary |
| Tera Term |
Terminal emulator |
Oniguruma |
? |
Yes |
No |
No |
BSD |
| TextMate |
Text editor |
Oniguruma |
? |
No |
Yes |
No |
Proprietary |
| UltraEdit |
Text editor |
Perl, Unix, UltraEdit |
? |
Yes |
No |
No |
Proprietary |
| Vile |
Text editor |
POSIX ERE with extensions |
? |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
GPL v2 |
| Vim |
Text editor |
Vim |
Traditional NFA |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
GPL-compatible charityware |
| Name |
Genre |
RegEx flavor(s) |
RegEx algorithm |
Win |
Mac OS X |
Cross |
License |
Web-based applications
See also
References