Oyster - Your Regex IDE at Mac App Store analyse

App power index: 180 (based on ranks around App Stores today)
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Developer: RED When Excited Ltd
Price: 0 free
Current version: 1.4, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 14 Jun 2013
App size: 4.57 Mb
4.1 ( 4971 ratings )
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> 3.96k
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~ $ 1.62k
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Regular expressions are a powerful tool for developers, but they arent the easiest things to build and debug. Oyster helps you interactively build and test them, storing each "pearl" in an easy to access library.

With powerful syntax highlighting, dynamic updates of matches and the results of replacement patterns in test text it has never been easier to build and test your regular expressions.

Once youve got it just the way you like it, oyster lets you copy the code in one of 11 languages onto the clip-board or by dragging out the pip into your desired editor. Starting with Dash 1.8.5 (coming August 2013) you can even save your regular expression as a snippet in Dashs library.

Youre not alone either, Oyster has built in integration with Oyster Farm, an online repository for pearls. You can download something that seems to fit the bill for you, and tweak it into what you would like. You can even share your changes, or entirely new pearls of your own.

Key features:
• Keep a library of regular expressions, match tests, and replacement patterns (locally or in iCloud)
• Download and share pearls in the oyster farm
• Interactive highlighting of regular expression, matches, and pattern application
• Match highlighting includes group matches within overall match
• Generate code many languages including C#, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Objective-C (NSRegularExpression and NSPredicate), PHP, Ruby, Pearl, Python, and TCL/TK
• Handy Regex Reference sheet to help you tune your regular expression
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Available in countries
Country Price
Canada 6.99 CAD
China 30 CNY
France 5.49 EUR
Germany 5.49 EUR
Italy 5.49 EUR
Netherlands 5.49 EUR
Portugal 5.49 EUR
Spain 5.49 EUR
Poland 5.49 EUR
UK 4.99 GBP
India 399 INR
Japan 600 JPY
Poland 23.99 PLN
Russia 379 RUB
Turkey 22.99 TRY
USA 4.99 USD
Korea, Republic Of 5.49 USD
Ukraine 4.99 USD
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Trop de bug

Bonne idée mais beaucoup trop de bug ce qui rend cette application presque inutilisable: la sauvegarde ne sauvegarde pas, on se retrouve donc avec une vielle version de la regex en cours de création la génération de code (testé avec PHP) ne génére parfois pas de code. parfois cest à dire 90% du temps.

Vielversprechend

Ich kann die negative Kritik nicht nachvollziehen. Ich setze traditionell sehr viele reguläre Ausdrücke ein und meine Tests in Oyster verliefen alle positiv. Die Perl-Repräsentation sieht bisher immer richtig aus. Volle Punktzahlt gibt es nicht, weil das Interface noch etwas sperrig ist, es kleine, völlig unötige, Verstöße gegen die Human Interface Guidelines gibt und mit ein Life Preview des Codes fehlt. (Code sieht man erst, wenn man Dash benutzt oder sich sein Clipboard anzeigen läßt.) Außerdem fehlt mir noch Qt5, auch wenn man die Perl-Ausdrücke natürlich leich adaptieren kann.

Unusable

you cannot even input image links as regex test text as it will try to display the images hahahaha this app is the worst regex app I’ve ever seen

Almost works…

Nice idea but I have purchased to search regex inside HTML files. And that doesn’t work or specifically Preview Window is mixing search result with attempts to Preview them (as HTML) adding some tags and modifying results on-the-fly. Cannot switch off this feature so the final result is unusable gibberish. Send question to support and no answer after weeks.

Great app, huge timesaver!

Ive been using Oyster for a few days now and its already saved me a ton of time. If you spend ANY time dealing with regular expressions in any form, save yourself the headache and buy this. Itll pay for itself in days.

Confusing and not very useful

Ive used a few of these kind of apps (RegExhibit, RegExRX, etc) and this is probably the worst value for the money. The whole app is a clunky UX nightmare. Its got a ton of features that are unclear how to use and provide little feed back. Even simple things like determining if a regex valid arent obvious. The color changes but is the bright color valid or invaid? Whats the language selection supposed to do? It doesnt seem to matter what you pick so it comes off like a gimic… Is it copying to the clipboard? Syntax highlighting? Ive got no idea and theres no feedback. The tests bit could be useful as a way to track test cases but they dont take the step of letting you see the effect of changes wihtout selecting each one.

Thanks Core Intuition

Bought this app after hearing about it on Core Intuition. It does what its supposed to and will definitely save you time.

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