List of regular expression software

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The following is a list of software applications that use regular expressions. In some cases, only later versions of the applications use regular expressions.

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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

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Name Genre RegEx flavor(s) RegEx algorithm License
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Search engine POSIX ERE with extensions and reductions DFA Proprietary

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