A great site for developing and testing regular expressions
Came across this one today and found it very handy for checking some complex regular expressions (regex) I was developing: http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/
This alternative was recommended by a friendly recently:- http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm
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