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Text editor that takes more than 10 gb

There is a chance, that Sublime is suitable for your task, but with several prerequisites: You should disable plugins such as syntax highlighting, bracket matcher or git gutter, i.e. any plugin that ...
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Regex Desktop Tool for Offline Use (Cross Platform)

Are you looking for a tool to run regular expression searches or to help develop & test the regex? Cross Platform Regular Expression Tool I am a big fan of Robert Kern's python grin tool/library. ...
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Library to generate text from regular expression

Does greenery do what you want? For instance, >>> from greenery.lego import parse >>> rep = parse('(a|b)[cd]{2}\1') >>> list(rep.strings()) ['acc\x01', 'acd\x01', 'adc\x01',...
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Library to generate text from regular expression

The python library rstr has the function xeger() to do what you need by using random strings and only returning ones that match: Example Install with pip install rstr In [1]: from __future__ import ...
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Free program to create regular expressions with a GUI

Not a windows app, but if that isn't a barrier to you, I'd recommend Regex101.com - it does allow you to switch between pcre/javascript/python/golang flavours, if that helps.
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Free program to create regular expressions with a GUI

Expresso Regular Expression Tool has an expression builder: and built-in libraries: Perhaps this is what you are looking for?
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Software to text-search a LARGE set of files (ebooks)

The open source DocFetcher has indexed over 10.000 epub books for me. The indexing process is quick, and conducting a full-text search across all of those books (after indexing) takes only a few ...
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Editor that shows RegEx selection and replacement results?

As is often the case in text editing, The One True Editor Emacs has a package for doing this. See this SO post about doing the very same thing in Emacs. Here are links to the relevant packages: https:...
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Editor that shows RegEx selection and replacement results?

I use this: RegExRX And since a picture is worth a 210 words, so:
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Code Analysis - List of all static fields

You can try JArchitect and its code query language to get all the static fields You can customize the query to get only the static fields from a project, package or a class.
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Text editor that takes more than 10 gb

From my experience, Emacs (for Windows) and Sublime (both free although there is a paid version for Sublime, but you don't need that) would be your best bet. I have opened 6GB files with Sublime ...
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Regex Desktop Tool for Offline Use (Cross Platform)

Have you looked at kiki (https://sources.debian.org/src/kiki/0.5.6-8.1/). It's written in Python and uses wxPython, so likely could be run on numerous platforms. It's in Debian repositories, and ...
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Software for parsing and displaying log data in a structured way

I wrote a log viewer loxx (as replacement of baretail supporting some more features - including simple graphic ouputss). I think it can fulfill most or all of your requirements. You can write also ...
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Web App or command line code to search a wordlist for specific letters

Here is a regex that will only display words with specific letters from a list. To dispay a, m or i (upper and lower case): [a-zA-Z]*[AaMmIi][a-zA-Z]* You can use this webapp to filter your list with ...
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I am looking for a text editor allowing to save and edit a list of search and replace expressions (search in multiple files, a plus)

I've been using VSCode on Windows for a while now for my text editing needs. They apparently have Linux & Macintosh versions as well. It supports find-replace across open files, with regular-...
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Optimization of regular expressions

I'm quoting this answer by @gpojd on Stack Overflow: If you are using perl, you could use Regexp::Optimizer or Regexp::Assemble. I don't know of any online tools that do what you ask. I have no ...
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python module to search for multiline pattern in text

A few people told me to look at pyparsing. Having experimented with it for a day, I must say it does fit the requirements. It can parse multiline text and it can track nested structures (aka balanced ...
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Batch Find/Replace within text file with savable/editable replace lists/presets

sed is the tool you're looking for. You can get it from GnuWin32: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm. A sed script file can be created that contains the batch of find/replace ...
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Regex Desktop Tool for Offline Use (Cross Platform)

Regular Expressions 101 (Desktop Edition) Description This project is a desktop version of the regex101.com site. It embeds a copy of the site inside the application so that no internet connection is ...
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Regex Desktop Tool for Offline Use (Cross Platform)

On my side I always use this Chrome App. It is very simple and light and it support the few things I need (multiline, highlight and replace). The big plus against the online tool regex101 is that once ...
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Need regex library for doing multiple matches in a string for C

You could use the http://www.pcre.org/ library. Please cut our problem into smaller pieces the next time. If you current issue is a regex question, then it is unneeded information that you fetch ...
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Code editor that supports regular expression lookbehind search

Sublime Sublime can handle lookahead and lookbehind. abc Search for (?<=a)b finds b Search for (?<=a)c gives no results Sublime is proprietary software. Sublime Text may be downloaded ...
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Code editor that supports regular expression lookbehind search

Atom Lookbehind does not work, while lookahead works (?!). But you can use \K in a similar manner. abc Search for (?<=a)b gives Invalid group error. Search for a\Kb finds b. Search for a\Kc ...
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Regex File Content Scanner with Capturing Groups

Have you tried Agent Ransack? It allows you to scan file name and contents. It allows regex. It displays the results in a table.
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Regex File Content Scanner with Capturing Groups

Notepad++ is capable of that: scans files filtered by file name patterns: 'Yes, see the "Filters" box in above screenshot. for occurrences of a given regular expression: Yes, see lower left radio box ...
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Web-app or Windows app to show speed of regex (regular expression)

If you are using python with the re or regex libraries you can simply use the timeit library or even easier in iPython or Jupyter you can use the %time and %timeit magics along with the %prun magic. ...
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Any C++ RegExp library with support full regexp in lookbehind

The Perl-compatible regular expression library (PCRE) Language: C (seems to also have C++ wrappers) Compiler support: GCC for sure, probably all popular compilers Actively maintained: Yes, last ...
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Editor that shows RegEx selection and replacement results?

Almost every JetBrain product does have a live preview (grey box) Of course there is (as you mentioned) SublimeText If you can live without a graphical user interface you can use sed
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Search & Replace Software which accept replace words count more than 234,206 characters

You should be able to do this with a simple python script, something like: import os # Assuming that the replacement words are in a plain text file with # colon separating the original & new ...
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regex to code converter (code generator)

Fo rmany years I have been extremely happy wiht RegEx Buddy. It is not free, but reasonably priced (and the OP does not ask for free). Develop Efficient Software Quickly with Instant Code Snippets ...
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