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RegexFormat 9 - Unicode (16.0) Special Edition

Prime Series - Latest build: 9.5 -100 * Released: 10-23-2025

_** NOTIFICATIONS **______________________________________________________________________________

- January 17, 2024

It has come to our attention that the company “Stack Overflow” purchased by “Prosus” is in fact a NAZI, Fascist

Company.

The evidence is given here:

This regex question was Closed by a user ‘@Chris’ who knows nothing about regex, and therefore could

not understand a paradox that exists in posting the sample text within the SO editor controls and the need to resolve

the question for clarity with an image. The sample text was not actually needed to answer the question.

When this was explained to him by the regex expert SLN (who commented), he discounted it as irrelevant.

He repeatedly insisted that if text was put in his way he would re-open the question. Again more explaining to him

that doing it that way would obfuscate a method to solve the problem and make the question un-answerable.

Never the less, SLN edited the question with the text he demanded. When then asked, ‘@Chris’ would not open it.

The result; all of SLN comments were deleted, but not ones from user ‘@Chris’ who apparently trolls the site.

The Original Poster of the question was eventually portrayed as the victim by ‘@Chris’ and SLN was demonized.

The message was ‘shut up or this will happen to you too’. What happened next ?

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-> COMMENTS

After 2 days:

SLN Suspension 1 yr -> Banned ( link )

Erased Proof -> Question Deleted ( link )

Prosus accomplishes the promotion of NAZI Fascism within its educational suites.

Avoid Prosus and its company’s at all costs !

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- July 20, 2023

It has come to our attention that the company “Stack Overflow” purchased by “Prosus” in it’s unacceptable behavior

will be banned from the purchase of RegexFormat. This includes all of it’s employees including developers,

from this date forward.

This is a permanent revocation. This applies to all company’s that Prosus owns as well.

Democracy is at stake, we take a stand !

March 26, 2021

Product demonstrations will start to be uploaded to Youtube soon.

Keep an eye out for RDNC Software and subscribe.

These demo’s will be performed by our resident experts. They will be

very informative for beginners all the way up to advanced.

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Exclusions from sale of product

August 14, 2022

1. It has come to our attention that the company Facebook is handing over conversation texts meant to be private, from people

seeking to get abortions and abortion information. Facebook should not be complicit with states that make abortion illegal

and punishable by the death penalty. If they fail to see the analogy to Nazi Germany, then they fail to have access to our products.

2. It has come to our attention that the company Google has removed the Political Donation Spam Filter for Gmail.

This is the primary venue Republicans use to “beg for donations” by spreading lies.

Sales and support for RegexFormat is withdrawn for the companies “Facebook” and “Google”, all of it’s employees including developers,

from this date forward.

We developers here as always, are taking a stand to protect US Democracy, starting in our own back yard !

Democracy is at stake, we take a stand !

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July 5, 2022

It has come to our attention that the Republican Party rapes 10 year old children and forces them to have their babies.

Sales and support for RegexFormat is withdrawn for states controlled by Republican lawmakers who have outlawed women’s

freedom to control their own bodies.

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(some overlap is noted with other listed states)

We developers here as always, are taking a stand to protect US Democracy, starting in our own back yard !

Democracy is at stake, we take a stand !

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Exclusions continued … ( also, free product key information )

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RegexFormat 9 - Unicode (16.0) Special Edition

Prime Version 9.5.100 Released 10-23-2025

Explore Unicode 16.0 with super controls.

This version is built with VS2015 and requires either VS2015 or VS2017 MFC / CRT runtime libraries.

The Setup program will NOT install these runtime libraries by default.

This temporary fix was necessary because VS2015 distributable won’t install over an VS2017 runtime,

causing the RegexFormat setup to abort.

Redistributables available here:

VS_2017_redist

VS_2015_redist

Available in 32 and 64 bit versions.

Notes: If you would like to see a feature added or expanded please message support with your request.

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Quick Download:

A zipped install of the latest version can be downloaded here:

Prime - 32-bit : Version 9 and Prime - 64-bit : Version 9

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Quick Links:

Download or Samples directory, v7 or v6 history

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Important Note(s):

RegexFormat 9 uses crypto services from CryptoAPI.dll. This is usually located in the

Windows\System32 directory. Please insure that it is installed.

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Version History ( Latest build: 9.5 - 100 )

Version 9.5 –100 10/23/2025 Release 9.5-100 includes Unicode 16.0 via ICU4-76.1 (CLDR 46.0)

This is the interim release before the Version 10.0 release which is still under testing.

Version 9.5 –20 2/7/2024 Release 9.5-20 includes Unicode 15.1 via ICU4-74.2 (CLDR 44.1)

Added 5 new Unicode (UCD) Utilities in the UNi tool (tabbed) Dialog.

Version 9.5 –07 2/2/2024 Made it easier, one-click, to convert a doc attachment (regex) into a MACRO which can then be saved to

a macro file for later reuse as a utility.

Also added a few useful macro’s to the standard file that is shipped.

Coming soon: Chained / Programmable Macro entities.

Version 9.5 –05 12/9/2023 New Splash screen.

Version 9.5 –02 11/19/2023 Release of the initial Prime Series. A new level of RegexFormat.

Version 9.5 – 0 9/22/2023 Release minor sub-version 9.5 includes Unicode 15.0 via ICU4-72.1

This version also includes a highly sophisticated margin control system embedded into discrete button controls

and is standard in the major tool windows where formatting is possible.

Version also includes many other carry over, undocumented enhancements.

Also, see the link above on how to get a free product key.

Version 9.4 –91 5/31/2023 Added a Sort Option ( ascending/descending ) with a Remove Duplicates sub-option within the Input cluster

of the Strings To Regex Ternary Tool.

Screen shot : Ternary Tool (new Sort)

Version 9.4 –90 5/15/2023 Re-released CSV Conversion, Parse and Make Tool Enhanced Version.

This version adds in line conversion: stripping field quotes and quoting all fields options.

These options are separate and can be used together or individually. They are homogenous

With the other conversion options. This powerful conversion tool is unique among available tools.

This is the one! Grab it !

Many other general bug fixes included.

Screen shot : CSV Conversion Tool

Version 9.4 –80 4/16/2023 Introducing a comprehensive CSV Conversion, Parse and Make Tool.

Supports accurate delimiter conversions, parsing into records, editing and (re)making of CSV files.

Also supports substantial quoting options like stripping, adding and escaping and field merging.

Version 9.4 –73 2/18/2023 Completed and added a comprehensive CSV parser option. Accessible through the

Regex Ternary Tree Generation Tool Dialog.

Version 9.4 –72 2/3/2023 Regex Factor engine mods. Enhancements - edge cases. Excellent coverage.

Version 9.4 –67 1/28/2023 Added more sort options in the Regex Ternary Tree Generation Tool.

Version 9.4 –65 1/2/2023 Regex Factor Engine mods : Resolve all quantifier modifier nesting within Single entity Cluster Removal.

This resolves all quantifiers to it’s simplest state. Pertains to Single entity clustering and other types.

This is a recursive operation until all quantifier states are resolved during the refractor process.

Version 9.4 – 60 12/15/2022 Release 9.4.60

Major added feature in the UCD Query Dialogue, Custom Regex page.

We are pleased to introduce a “Target last result” option mode that uses the last result output as a target of the next regex.

This allows chaining, mixing multiple Name or Codepoint subset searches.

This is managed with a pair of left / right buttons to scroll previous or next result seamlessly as needed for

inspection or to start a new query at any point in the chain.

Version 9.4 –51 12/2/2022 Refined Benchmark Dialog control and handling and “mode cue's used for navigation”. Provides a better user experience.

Version 9.4 – 50 10/24/2022 Release 9.4.50 includes Unicode 15.0 via ICU4-72.1

Database has many added characters and properties all of which are accessible via Rxf.

Version 9.4 –22 8/11/2022 Strings to Regex additions:

Added a check box to select converting literal Space to class ‘[ ]’ on output. The default is a space is unchanged.

Version 9.4 –20 7/25/2022 UCD Query Dialogue additions:

Within the Custom Tab, added a radio button pair to allow selection that specifies if the regex search is to be

applied toward the finding of Codepoint Values or Codepoint Names. This is a powerful addition to the custom regex

capabilities to query the UCD.

Many other code enhancements as well.

Version 9.4 –1 2/2/2022 GUI improvements:

Refined Toolbar Custom user controlled setting interface.

Individual toolbars can be set to show text (if any) below the buttons. This is a standard right click the left

part of the toolbar and select Customize. Highlight the toolbar that needs to be changed, then select or

deselect the “show text below button” check box ( selecting “Reset” from the Custom Toolbar Dialog resets toolbars ).

Notably, the Test Toolbar can be made smaller by having the text to the left of the button which shrinks up the

upper menu space if needed. The default is the Test Toolbar has text below and the others have no text at all.

Additionally, if Reset Layout is selected from the Layout menu, the default toolbar sizes will be rendered.

In the future, this standard Microsoft Toolbar manipulation will be brought out to the Layout menu for convenience

as new Toolbars are added.

Version 9.4 – 0 1/11/2022 Release minor sub-version 9.4 includes Unicode 14.0 via ICU4-70.1

Database has many added characters and properties all of which are accessible via Rxf.

Also introduced is a new formatting indent shape-offset of 2 characters.

The indent shape options are now 2, 3, 5 characters, with and without margin padding.

All comment shapes continue as before and auto-adjust as needed.

Version 9.3 – 92 1/7/2022 Shadow buffers will now do CRLF Translation based on the global setting from the Mainframe Toolbar.

Also, vertical tabs are now translated into the literal text ‘\v’ when any formatting operation is done.

This can be suppressed in the configuration if needed as not all engines recognize this literal as a vertical tab character.

Version 9.3 – 91 1/4/2022 Balance Text Tool editing was inadvertently disabled for all except the parenthesis pair.

This is now fixed for the other paired text. These include () , [] , {} , <>. More might be added in the future.

The text to find its balance is selectable from the main window toolbar.

The main editors will highlight the balanced text when double clicking either on the start or end of

one of the paired text.

Version 9.3 – 85 10/27/2021 Regex ReFactor Class factoring modifications :

Added a option layer to allow partitioning of a range into component ranges.

The three literal range type are: Ascii, Ext-Ascii and Unicode range(s).

Partitioning is turned on by default. This option applies to all the range types collectively

that renders up to 6 different affects. See update 9.3 – 83 for how these are used.

( press the “Set Prefer” button to configure ).

Version 9.3 – 83 10/14/2021 Regex ReFactor Class factoring modifications :

- Expanded un-escaping of class character literals.

This includes all non-alpha, non-numeric ASCII as well as all characters extending out to U+10FFFF.

Meta characters are automatically set escaped.

- Also added configurable “Input Range” types that will consume or be absorbed by expansion then condensing.

This includes setting one or all of Ascii, Ext-Ascii and/or Unicode range(s) as specified in the configuration dialog.

( press the “Set Prefer” button to configure ).

Version 9.3 – 80 9/7/2021 Regex ReFactor class factoring. Full condense and resolve positive and negative classes.

This release features a configurable class factoring special groups and sorting.

Class factoring is now an amazing full feature tool. Demo video’s will be uploaded shortly.

Screen shot : <img link>

Version 9.3 – 79 8/31/2021 Regex ReFactor class factoring. Full condense and resolve positive and negative classes.

The next release will allow configurable output to the class editing resolve and condense.

This will include the ability to bring out or condense into ranges, major ascii categories.

Sort order and setting ranges and notation of characters in the Unicode basic and extended layers.

Version 9.3 – 76 6/27/2021 Regex ReFactor completed full class factoring. Engine almost complete.

The upcoming minor sub version 9.4 will provide a few more factoring changes and will be almost complete.

At this point, there is way too many demo’s that could be made. Below is just a sample.

Expect many more demos to be uploaded to the RegexFormat YouTube channel.

If you would like to contribute a factoring demo or would like to see a specific factoring functionality,

ReFactSamp__All_ASCII_Class.mp4

ReFactSamp_Emoj_TernAndPipeFact.mp4

Version 9.3 – 28 5/15/2021 Regex ReFactor engine mods :

Both the Strings To Regex Thread and Regex Refactor Thread dialog threads have these new features.

- Expanded Alts-To-Class character qualification to now include all character constructs that can be

joined into a class.

Includes : non-boundary escape characters, escape sequences like Hex \x.. or \x{},

Octal \o{}, Uni \u.... or \u{}, Universal \U........ , Named Uni \N {..} , Property '\p' or '\P' forms.

As the resultant class is constructed it is condensed into ranges where applicable.

After being condensed, it is custom sorted to group alpha-nums and \d\w\s grouped to the front

and pairing of positive/negative classes like \d\D for an easy visualized assessment.

The next major improvement will be the processing of Alts-Classes To Class where multiple classes

are merged and resolved.

- Added additional option to remove cluster group (?: _ ) that are surrounded by alt-like boundary’s.

This exposes the cluster contents to a wide range of factoring available in other parts of the engine

further reducing it’s size and increasing its speed.

This is a major expansion of capability. This opens the door to more factoring outcome options.

Version 9.3 – 27 5/12/2021 See new Regex Refactor Thread dialog that has this new feature:

New capabilities added to the Factor Engine to fine tune the parsing that allows for specific

Classes for Perl, Dot-Net and Java engines. This is a base layer added to the factor engine.

This is selectable from the Refactor dialog as well as allowing the formatter to use that engine or not.

In the near future, a class combining resolve feature will be built upon this foundation as well.

For now, this Refactor tool has to be considered the most powerful regex processing tool there is.

Version 9.3 – 25 4/17/2021 Strings to Regex supertool mod :

New boundary option’s added : “Assert Boundary” and “Assert Alpha-Num”.

Version 9.3 – 23 4/8/2021 Regex ReFactor engine mod :

Added an additional option to convert simple capture groups ( _ ) to cluster groups (?: _ ).

Some use capture groups as it were a cluster context. Some older engines don’t even allow cluster syntax.

However, the factor engine is geared towards clusters as factoring items out of capture groups

is not desirable. This allows the deeper factoring that occurs in the engine within clustered groups.

This option is only available in the Regex Refactor Thread dialog.

Version 9.3 – 22 4/5/2021 Regex ReFactor engine mod :

Added additional option to remove cluster group (?: _ ) surrounding multiple

entities if that group is not quantified.

The existing single entity option would remove the cluster syntax even if it is quantified.

This opens the door to more factoring outcomes.

Both the Strings To Regex Thread and Regex Refactor Thread dialog threads have this new feature.

Version 9.3 – 21 3/26/2021 Changes :

- Undo System; Added a layout option to show selection (if any) after an Undo editor operaton.

It is sometimes annoying to see a highlighted selection state at the end of a

series of editor Undo operation. This is now optional.

- Strings to Regex supertool; A new boundary option “Multi-Line” was added. This option will

auto-construct the text (?m)^(?: ___ )$ that will surround the generated / factored regex.

Additionally, beefed up the “Piped” generated / factored regex routines.

Version 9.3 – 19 3/6/2021 Fixed the bug in Replace All command when using UTF-8/32 mode.

This was known to exist for a long time. Finally got around to

fixing it. The fix was delayed since it is a seldom used feature.

The source buffer length was being miscalculated.

Version 9.3 – 16 2/20/2021 Enhancements to the Strings to Regex tool.

Added more ways to make and factor regex from your lists :

- Generate Piped Regex Button. It’s just like the Generate Ternary Rx

except it takes the input and makes alternation regex.

Sorting is an option selected with the combo box.

All factoring functions work with this option as well.

- A piped delimiter parsing option. Also a parse now button

that will take the input, parse it and create a new display list.

These capabilities build upon and are seamlessly integrated into the

existing capabilities.

Also, note that the max loops param was set to 20 as a default.

When the max is reached, a message asks whether to do another

round of max loops. Or, it can be cancelled and the current factoring

will be output. Set this param to 0 to have unlimited loops.

And as always, this output can be pasted into the ReFactor Tool

to be further reduced as needed.

Screen shot : Strings To Regex Thread

Version 9.3 – 12 1/29/2021 Major improvements to the Match Results Pane.

Added a tool bar combo that can be used to select how the results are to

be displayed. Very slick interface!

Options are :

Sort either Ascending or Descending Groups by one of :

- Number

- Name

- Position matched

There has always been the option to view only named groups.

All these capabilities are seamlessly integrated into a now

Classified Super Tool. Screen shot : Super Match Results

Version 9.3 – 1 to 11 Threads were created for the Regex Refactor Thread and Strings To Regex Thread

tools to do regex Generation processing. Both of these tools use the

regex Factor Engine that was created for release 9.3.

These tools can be run concurrently in separate threads.

This also allows regex processing in the main window at the same time.

Each of these threads can be cancelled at any time via their independent

run dialogs that monitor them.

Version 9.3 – 0 10/29/2020 Release minor sub-version 9.3

This sub-version release is to introduce the new Regex ReFactor interface.

These iterative routines are extremely advanced and tailored for all regex flavors.

Formerly used as an internal series of helper’s, the functionality has been greatly

expanded and extended for use as a stand alone tool. It is user configured and

used on compressed regex segments. As a convince, besides being accessed from

the Tools menu as a modless dialog, it can also be accessed from the tool bar in each

document frame when the Compressed Output tab is active.

It will take the contents of the frame’s text (compressed) which gets passed to the

ReFactor dialog. There the input can be modified, pasted, etc…

This is a stand alone tool. Screen shot : Regex Refactor Thread

Version 9.2 – 0 8/12/2020 Release minor sub-version 9.2

This sub-version release is to introduce new format indenting options.

This offers greater flexibility when formatting regular expressions.

The optional indentation now available is 3 (with/without margin padding) and 5.

This indentation affects the comment shape as well. It also affects annotations.

Future versions will have even greater user control formatting options.

Now formatting regex can be customized to create unique polished professional

output.

Version 9.1 – 29 7/10/2020 Modified Undo System to include whitespace character undo.

This achieves the best granularity, and will provide a complete and smooth Undo.

Version 9.1 – 27 6/21/2020 Modified Hex Reader Utility to open files and highlight quicker.

Version 9.1 – 25 6/13/2020 Pleased to release an update to the Mega-Convert Utility :

Added an option to convert only Un-Paired Surrogate Characters (Utf-16)

to another form. Screenshot Mega-Convert.

Version 9.1 – 24 6/2/2020 Fixed a bug in Number Range to Regex - Advanced when first range digit > 0

that is preceded by 0(s), generated the wrong regex range. This came into existence

after the great floating point enhancement. This bug is named ‘ed-1001’ .

Generated regex ranges work correctly now.

If this is encountered in the future, please inform support.

Version 9.1 – 23 5/8/2020 Fixed a bug in Mega-Conversion Tool when converting from Code Point notation.

This was a minor bug. Works correctly now.

Version 9.1 – 22 4/26/2020 Enhancement in the C-Props (character properties tab) from the UCD Interface

control that allows the floating of the properties list. This window is resizable allowing

all properties to be visible without scrolling if needed.

Version 9.1 – 21 4/6/2020 Fixed up handling of \Q .. \E in format, compress and expand modes.

Version 9.1 – 20 3/12/2020 Upgraded versions to Unicode 13.0, and Icu 66.1.

- A new tab is added in the UCD Interface super control.

The tab is labeled C-Props (character properties).

It allows scrolling through a text sample and lists all properties associated with

the current selected sample character. There is a watch (snapshot) feature that

enables quick comparison of how properties change from one character to the next.

This functionality will be supersized in the upcoming release of Version 9.2

Version 9.1 – 12 1/7/2020 Happy New Year !!

Enhanced Mega-Convert Tool – Added separate conversion options for

Ascii lower ranges 0x01 – 0x1F (control) , 0x20 (space) , 0x21 – 0x7E (printable).

which join the existing Ascii extended range.

These characters can be excluded from conversion with an optional user-entered

regex class. Example : exclude characters that match [^a-zA-Z]

Version 9.1 – 10 12/13/2019 Added UCD property dialog menu item in the list context. This enables

shortcut property names from the list to be toggled or turned on / off.

Version 9.1 – 9 11/21/2019 Added a new tool : Balanced Text Tool to the editors. This tool

enhances regex editing to find balanced group and class syntax.

Accessible via h<F2> for Next, <SHIFT - F2> for Previous hotkeys

as well as from context menu’s.

This is a separate built-in find structure. Available balanced text include

() , [ ] . { }, < > which are selectable from a combo box button

from the main toolbar.

Screen shot : < add >

Version 9.1 – 6 9/14/2019 New layouts added and various cumulative fixes done.

Stable version.

Version 9.1 – 1 8/3/2019 New additions / modifications:

- Added new Flags in the Format section that allow expansion of

escaped Metacharacters. It is the default but can be turned off.

- Converted all the tools suites into Modeless dialogs. It’s persistent,

allowing more work to get done.

Version 9.1 – 0 7/23/2019 Release minor sub-version 9.1

This sub-version release is to introduce the new

Mega–Number Range to Regex Super Tool.

This is hands down, the finest regex generating tool there is !

Features Negative / Positive, Integer or Decimal ranges.

It is an invaluable regex generating tool for all integer / float ranges.

Screen shot : Mega–Number Range to Regex

Version 9.0 – 3 6/18/2019 Bug fixed in Mega-Convert : lower ascii range parsing error when

Universal \U source selected.

Bug fixed in regex format core : group count error when using

nested Branch Reset constructs.

Version 9.0 – 2 5/13/2019 Bug fixed in Mega-Bench 8 pointer fault when benching \z construct.

Added new Ascii conversion options to Mega Convert Tool .

Version 9.0 – 1 4/20/2019 Upgraded: To Unicode 12.1

Regex engine: Modified Boost 1.65.1, ICU4 – 64.2

Version 9.0 – 0 1/23/2019 Release major version 9

This major release is to introduce the Multi-Level Undo System

for the input, output, test and scratch editor controls.

The Undo level is bottomless and can be purged at any time.

Each editor has it’s own stack that is controllable.

Version 8.11 – 1 10/3/2018 Converted the Mega-Bench 8 Report Generator into a re-sizeable dialog.

Version 8.11 – 0 9/25/2018 Release minor sub-version 8.11.

Upgraded: To Unicode 11, ICU4 – 62.1

Version 8.9 – 8 7/21/2018 Bug fixed in Strings To Regex Ternary Tree tool.

When using aggressive factoring (before or after), this manifested when a whitespace

was in the literal to be factored. The code used the (?x) option which excluded the whitespace.

This was a moderate bug. Upgrade to 8.9 – 8 or greater to avoid this.

Version 8.9 – 7 7/18/2018 Converted Mega-Bench 8 to a resizable dialog.

Version 8.9 – 6 7/11/2018 Change in MSI Setup to handle redistributable issues ( see above ).

Version 8.9 – 2 4/14/2018 The new Strings To Regex – Ternary and Mega-Convert tools were put to use

creating Utf-16 and Utf-32 Emoji regex. These regex will match all the emoji strings

specified in the current V11 of Unicode. The regex are created from the emoji-ordering.txt

file obtained from the Unicode.org site.

The new samples can be obtained in the _Samples directory under Emoji sub-directory.

There is a starter file Machine-readable emoji ordering v11.0 containing instructions

to get these regex in a semi-automated way, with just a couple of key strokes.

When more emoji are added, just generate the new regexes.

For quick reference, this is a link to text version of that file:

Machine-readable emoji ordering v11.0.txt.

Screen shot : Tern Tool

Version 8.9 – 2 4/14/2018 Upgraded: the new Mega-Convert Tool to include two new options.

These options are for the conversion From Method and Syntax.

- Added an Normalize Utf-16/32 Hex method option to the from combo box.

This will run both the 16 /32 methods in one operation. It is equivalent to running

the selected syntax form as they exist in both modes.

- Added an All Syntaxes syntax option to the from syntax combo box.

This will run all syntaxes available for the selected from method in one operation.

When used together, it enables the From Conversion to become:

“Normalize Utf-16/32 Hex” using “All Syntaxes”, converting to a single To Conversion

form. This is a potent combination.

Screen shot : Mega-Convert

Version 8.9 – 0 4/9/2018 Release minor sub-version 8.9.

Upgraded: the regex engine to accept property, Single-Name shortcuts for types :

Binary, General_Category, General_Category_Mask, Script and Block.

For these types, the other way \p{Type=Value} is still supported.

This is a system-wide modification that is honored by all the sub-systems.

For the UCD-Interface Tool, a selectable flag ( checkbox ) is available to select to use the shortcut

regex names or not when adding properties to the cache.

This upgrade adds maximum flexibility to the use of properties in regex constructs.

Upgraded: the new Mega-Convert Tool to include option for the printable,

non-control ascii range ( 0x21 – 0x7F ). There was already an extended ascii range option.

Screen shot : Mega-Convert

Version 8.8 – 0 4/6/2018 Release minor sub-version 8.8.

Upgraded: to the Strings To Regex – Ternary Tree tool.

Selectable UTF-16/32 processing. Many new options,

including an Analyze data feature that shows the UTF-16/32 metrics

along with giving recommendations of options to get the best outcome.

The upgraded tool also features deep aggressive factoring options.

Screen shot : Tern Tool

Fixed: There was a bug fix. When using the Replace-All feature within

the Find/Replace paradigm and the ICU-mode (UTF-32) set, the target

mirror buffer was not having the flag set correctly.

This flag converts the target buffer to/from u16string / u32string as needed.

This was an oversight when the whole system was converted over.

It now works correctly and without issues.

Version 8.6 – 0 3/27/2018 Release minor sub-version 8.6.

Added a new tool: Mega-Convert.

Converts between any Unicode/Hex/Codepoint Notation methods,

within any syntax and format. Truly a remarkable tool.

Operates on any of the available input edit box formats.

Screen shot : Mega-Convert

Version 8.5 –8 3/11/2018 Mega-String modifications.

Parsing is extended to the four C-Style string options.

Includes optional stripping of _T(“”) macro’s and parsing of the nine trigraph’s.

See the documentation for Mega-String Tool for an overview of functionality.

Previously, the C-Style string parsing was generalized in the Double Quote parse option.

Version 8.5 –6 2/21/2018 Added class range combining to Num Range Generator tool.

Version 8.5 –5 2/19/2018 Added a new Benchmark Result item - Matches Per Second.

This is a calculated average obtained by this formula:

Matches per iteration * Total iterations / Total run time microseconds ( converted to seconds ).

Version 8.5 –4 1/28/2018 Added a new format option under global expansion.

When global expansion is disabled, no expansion takes place.

The new option is to enable group syntax expansion (default) or disable.

The option only takes affect when global expansion is disabled.

Note – The normal mode when expansion is enabled is to separate some

constructs with a space. These constructs are selectable at the bottom of the format

section in the Flags pane. Also, any embedded horizontal whitespace is not touched.

With the addition of this new option, time was taken to redesign the affect when

the global expansion flag is disabled. Now any air (whitespace between constructs)

is taken out.

Setting this global expansion off then back on, has the affect of taking the air out

then re-expanding constructs. Doing this does not affect the current comment formatting.

Version 8.5 – 0 1/21/2018 Release minor sub-version 8.5.

Upgraded RegexFormat to Unicode 10.0, CLDR 32, ICU4 – 60.2 UCD.

Version 8.4 – 2 1/11/2018 Added the current Regex engine type text to the Formatted Output tab label (MDI document),

which is currently selected in the flags pane.

When the engine format type changes, the engine type is included in the formatted tab label.

Also, when changed, an arrow indicator is set in the State button text as a reminder

that the regex source needs to be reformatted. The reminder arrow disappears upon

subsequent formatting. This extends the properties to a more easily visible location.

Version 8.4 – 0 12/1/2017 Release minor sub-version 8.4.

Summary:

A Cumulative update ( which includes the previous regex engine modifications ),

new changes and some bug fixes.

New:

- Within the Hex Reader dialog.

Replace “CRLF” metrics and highlighting to encompass all Unicode line breaks.

Modified “Whitespace” metrics and highlighting to encompass all Unicode whitespace.

- A Save All Modified menu item added in the “File” menu. Includes a Yes to all button within the dialog.

Fixed:

- Within the Format regex code, fixed a bug where some whitespace was not getting

escaped when in X-Mode (eXpanded).

- Within the Strings To Regex(Ternary Tree) dialog, fixed a bug in the Simple Factoring algorithm.

Version 8.3 – 8 11/16/2017 Regex engine modifications:

- Allow Back References to undefined groups (not yet parsed).

- Allow Nested Back References.

Note – these are significant changes to the boost regex engine, and these and the other mods

bring it up to par (and performance) with Perl’s regex engine.

Version 8.3 – 7 11/6/2017 Added another new option to the Strings to Regex Ternary Tree Tool:

Do group factoring. Screenshot: Strings to Regex – Ternary Tree

Version 8.3 – 6 10/27/2017 Extended Leap Year Range to Regex tool’s year range from 0 – 9999.

Version 8.3 – 0 10/4/2017 Release minor sub-version 8.3.

Completed the system wide conversion started in Version 8.2 – 18.

Changes apply to ICU mode (UTF-32) only !

The non-ICU mode regex operations remain unchanged.

Summary:

Removed the facet overhead (UTF-16 to UTF-32) of searching a target string.

Now uses u32string iterators directly for regex search / replace operations.

This includes using u32string when constructing regex, meaning

surrogate pairs and stand alone surrogates are resolved to UTF-32 codepoints.

Results are correctly mapped / highlighted back to the wide string display’s.

Affected code: All places in the application that use ICU mode (UTF-32).

Version 8.2 – 25 9/28/2017 Upgraded the regex engine to version 1.65.1

All modifications are carried forward.

Version 8.2 – 23 9/25/2017 Fixed a minor bug where in certain circumstances, the floating close button

failed to display (when enabled) when mouse-over the mdi-tab.

Added / modified features in the Layout->Document & MDI Tabs menu:

- Enable Active Tab Bold Font ( default = false )

- Tab Border Width ( 0 - 5 pixels, default = 2 )

- Text Shading - Inactive View ( None, %20 - %50, default = %20 )

Version 8.2 – 21 9/22/2017 Introducing a new regex generate tool: Leap Year Range to Regex

A truly accurate tool that lets you generate a custom Leap Year regex given a range of years.

Multiple compression levels are selectable to suite any project and performance preference.

This is the first installment of a Date/Time regex generation suite soon to be available.

Screen shots: Ly1 Ly2 Ly3 Ly4 Ly5 Ly6 Ly7 Ly8 Ly9

Version 8.2 – 20 9/13/2017 Added a new option to the Strings to Regex Ternary Tree Tool:

Convert alternations (?: x | y | z ) to class [ x y z ]

Version 8.2 – 19 9/11/2017 Fixed an issue on the 32-bit version where using MemDC for virtual list control with more than

500,000 items significantly slowed performance.

The 64-bit version is unaffected. These virtual lists are used to display Unicode names.

Version 8.2 – 18 9/8/2017 General Modifications: Removed the facet overhead (utf16 to utf32) of searching a target string

when in ICU mode. Now uses UString32 iterators directly for regex search operations.

Affected code:

- Benchmark suite, %100 speed increase in ICU flagged regex.

- UCD Interface, %100 speed increase in Custom Rx and CodePoints pages.

Note that the UCD Interface pages now have the full Code Point range available for query.

This includes leading/trailing surrogates and non-characters as well.

Version 8.2 – 14 8/30/2017 Modified Benchmark suite – Added a custom control vertical bar with thumb indicating

current top slot. This is a subtle visual indicator when scrolling slots.

UCD – Custom Rx page, expand the regex input box.

Fixed a minor startup issue on this page.

Version 8.2 – 11 8/22/2017 Regex engine modification: Corrected Non-word boundary construct \B.

Previously, it did not correctly match at the beginning or end of string if the adjacent

character were a non-word.

Modified the Match Results title to display the regex options used to obtain the last match.

This is an important visual aid to help quickly diagnose possible wrong, invalid or non-matches.

Expanded the Benchmark suite to eight slots available per run.

The suite has been renamed to Mega-Bench 8 to reflect the increase in slots.

Screenshots: Bench1 Bench2 Bench3 Bench Report Generator

Version 8.2 – 6 7/27/2017 Modified Benchmark suite to update an items run display result immediately when

it’s run finishes. Previously, item display results were updated upon completion of the last run.

In the next update we will be adding more item slots (currently there are 2 available for runs).

Version 8.2 – 5 6/21/2017 Added a Mark Location debug option to the Mega-String control.

This option is only enabled for the Parsing function. It adds =► text ◄= marks at

the location where start and end string quote delimiter’s were parsed and removed.

This option helps diagnose errant string quoting.

Additionally, if the Un-escape delimiters box is checked, it adds a ◆ where the opening or closing

delimiter was removed, or a ◇ indicating no delimiter was found, but should be at this location.

Note that un-escaping escaped delimiters does not involve marking.

This option helps diagnose errant delimited regex.

Marking is available for parsing functions: Single, Double, and No Quoting.

Screenshot: Mega-String : Mark Location

Version 8.2 – 2 5/23/2017 Added Python’s Raw String syntax generation to the Mega-String control.

Options include double r” “ or single r’ ‘ quote constructs, as well as optional intelligent

padding already built into the Mega-String control. Optional lines continued + “\n” for multi-line.

Safeguards odd number of escapes anywhere in target as well at the end of the string,

and provide proper escaping of delimiters.

Screenshot: Mega-String : Python Raw Strings

Version 8.2 – 1 5/14/2017 Added Regex Replace Format String Syntax to include Perl, Sed, Literal, and Boost-Extended.

Formerly, by default, the Perl format string was used in replacements with no other options.

This can be set within the Macro Manager dialog just above the replace edit box.

(n/a) 5/4/2017 Updated IIS7 web.config to allow .rxf mime type sample files to be downloaded.

These sample files can now be downloaded from the Download directory.

Version 8.2 – 0 4/24/2017 Release minor sub-version 8.2.

Updated to Regex engine 1.64. All modifications are carried forward.

Version 8.1 – 1 4/19/2017 Regex engine modification to fix a bug in class intersection.

Update to this if version 8.1-0 was installed.

Version 8.1 – 0 4/12/2017 Release minor sub-version 8.1.

Regex engine modifications to correctly handle class intersection.

Example [^\W\D] matches only digits.

Version 8.0 – 14 4/1/2017 Modified UCD Property Search to trim whitespace and added an automatic tokenize feature.

If the initial string is not found, the tokenized parts will be searched for instead.

The token delimiters can consist of any of these characters <space> _ - , . ' * " ; \t

Version 8.0 – 13 3/23/2017 Fixed a Benchmark issue when advancing position on a zero-length match.

In a rare case, this resulted in incorrectly reporting the number of matches on a run.

Version 8.0 – 9 3/14/2017 Added a Unique page to the UCD Interface dialog.

This has the same functionality as the Codepoints and Custom-Rx pages, except the regex

object is removed. It is instead replaced by an input edit box to paste or type any string.

The string is analyzed for unique codepoints which are displayed in the result.

The result can then be processed using the same features as in the Codepoints and Custom-Rx pages.

Version 8.0 – 8 3/10/2017 Added a Custom-Rx page to the UCD Interface dialog.

This has the same functionality as the Codepoints page, except the regex

object is editable. Thus, any regex construct can be used to obtain a codepoint set.

Properties from the UCD regex cache can be easily added, mixed, and matched within the regex.

Version 8.0 – 6 2/21/2017 Some UCD navigation improvements and prevent tab control from getting focus.

Version 8.0 – 5 2/20/2017 Post-release: Fixed an issue that caused a crash

when trying to drag dockable panes after accessing the UCD names page.

If using a versions between 8.0.0 - 8.0.4 it is recommended that it be

upgraded to version 8.0.5.

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New features:

Refactor Engine -

‘Regex Refractor Engine’ is new. The most comprehensive, powerful refractor available.

Unicode -

‘Super Controls’ are new - UCD (Unicode Character Database) Interface

using ICU4 72.1 (Unicode 15.0) . Overhaul of regex engine with full Unicode 15 support,

Properties (over 1345) and Names (0x10FFFF). Includes all scripts and script extensions.

UCD Info Page : UCD Interface Usage

UCD Tab Screenshots : Usage Properties Codepoints Names Unique Custom-Rx

New viewer available from all editors : Uni-Name Viewer

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Included features:

This application parses, dynamically formats/expands/compresses Regular Expressions.

Includes a built-in testing regex engine derived and modified from Boost Regex 1.65.

Includes a regex benchmarking suite and many other Super Controls.

Uses and includes the ICU4 72.1 Library ( Unicode 15.0 ).

Includes UCD (Unicode Character Database) Interface a ‘Super Control’ suite.

Regex Refactoring Engine, the most advanced available. This engine only exists within Regexformat 9.

Many other new controls, including a Unicode Name Viewer to go with the existing Hex Viewer.

View anything from anywhere, it’s integrated into all editors.

See Online Manual (Deprecated)

The core:

It’s many strong features include formatting, expanding, compressing expressions,

advanced comment handling, auto-generated capture group comments, analysis

tools, padding, Raw/Single/Double quoted String construction of finished expressions

that can be pasted into development code.

Includes independent property views of the current regular expression providing a quick

look at its state and comprehensive construct metrics and error analysis information.

Errors can be selected in different views. For example, when an error is selected from

the view list, it is instantly selected in both the input and output views, when selected

from the output, it is selected from the input and error list, etc.., - this makes

debugging quite easy.

Also included is a selectable, completely customizable analysis overlay of conditional’s

and capture group counting (including named groups last), as well as annotated error

reporting of the entire expression embedded in the formatted output.

Formatting continues to the end of the expression regardless of errors, thus providing

a single pass, down stream look after possibly trivial errors.

A Flags pane is provided to easily turn on/off options and settings.

Over 400 internal flag bits control the parsing/formatting engine giving maximum

flexibility to precisely control how the expression is parsed, how it is expanded or

compressed, and the look and shape of the formatted output.

Its solid parsing foundation include most all individual constructs available in

Regular Expressions are provided for and are individually selectable. There are built-in

presets for the major flavors, but everything can be customized, giving the ability to

define custom language presets.

Included Presets:

· User-Defined

· Default

· Custom

· Perl

· PCRE

· Dot-Net

· Java 6

· Java 7

· JavaScript

Expression with embedded ‘expanded’ or ‘compressed’ modes are handled seamlessly

by the engine.

Easily unveil the most complex packed expressions in existence with the click of a button.

Debug, refactor, make changes, then pack it back up for production.

Save the document (.rxf) with all of its views and Flags state, open it later when the

time comes for modification or maintenance or for quick recollection.

Whether a novice or expert, if you use Regular Expressions, this application will save

you hours of work. See it, change it, and maintain it as real code.

Supported Platforms:

Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11

Download RegexFormat:

A zipped install of the latest version can be downloaded here

-> 32-bit : Version 8 and 64-bit : Version 8

Manual/Help File:

(Deprecated)

Version 4.2 manual is included in the installation (or available online – see above link),

but can also be downloaded here -> Manual/Help File

Installation:

Unzip the files to a temporary directory then run the Setup.exe program.

The installed Samples directory contains data files with which to evaluate the application.

Miscellaneous samples can be obtained and are added to the Samples directory.

To Purchase:

Single and Multi-Site License(s) are offered and are now available for purchase.

Accepted payment methods include Major Credit Card or PayPal account.

Questions can be directed to support

Choose a RegexFormat license purchase option:

Ø Single License - Price $59 (USD)

Ø MULT-Site License - Price $55 (USD) / ea. , quantity 2-100

(Requires an organization name/address)

A registration key will be emailed to you after the purchase process completes.

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RDNC Software

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