regular expressions 101 Reviews

DocFetcher Reviews

1. Mark Wood

   | self | almost 4 years ago
   Pros, Cons

   I love DocFetcher! I discovered this gem of a program when Windows stopped supporting string searches in word processors other than Word.

   🏁 Competitors: the generic string search available in Windows, Agent Ransack, Locate32, Everything by Voidtools

   👍 Pros:    Beautiful intuitive interface. easy to use, once you set up the index.

   👎 Cons:    If you have a large collection of files to index, you will eventually be unable to search all your documents at the same time. you have to set up separate indexes and search each one separately. available in a variety of versions, up to 64 bit.|The help files are good. however, learning how to set up an index can be frustrating.

regular expressions 101 mentions (871)

• New Regular expression (Regex) functions in Excel

  Could we get some easy aliasing of REGEXREPLACE to reRepl and picking a regex engine that matches the syntax rules you're used to in a the next decade or so? > Try asking Bing Copilot for regex patterns! Or maybe embed a cheaper and more reliable solution like https://regex101.com? - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Demystifying Regex in Go

  Online regex testers and debuggers: Tools like (https://regex101.com/) or (https://regexr.com/) can help you test and debug your regular expressions before integrating them into your Go code. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• How to Validate Emails in PHP: regex, filter_var(), and API Explained

  Use online regex testers: Tools like Regex101 or RegExr can help visualize how your regex matches against test strings, providing explanations and highlighting potential issues. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• How to Market Developer Tools

  This tool that helps developers build and test regular expressions is a great example of a free software tool that builds trust for your brand. Regular expressions are a particularly tricky part of software development that most developers do not commit to memory. Someone working on a problem that requires them to write a regular expression might search "regular expression builder" and come across this tool, which... - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• Regex - Understanding those [^Str|ng\$] for Beginners

  Hint: test out your answer with regex101.com. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

DocFetcher mentions (12)

• Tool to parse, index, and search local documents? - Windows

  I use https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html to index and search large repos of docs. I use Papermerge for my digital file cabinet though. DocFetcher is good for searching an existing repository of files. Source: over 1 year ago

• Docfetcher is a cross-platform free and open source desktop search application

  As they state, it is crap-free, free forever, cross-platform, portable, private (local only), and indexes only what you need. You can also set minimum and maximum file sizes to index. See https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html. Source: over 1 year ago

• Career Advice for a fresh graduate who wants to enter Structural Engineering field

  What I'd recommend is setting up a digital and/or physical technical library. Download any useful documents, books, standards etc. and store them in a clear, concise folder structure. Then create an index of the library with a tool like DocFetcher. (Think of it as Google for your technical library) This should make it fast and easy to find the relevant information when you need it. Source: over 1 year ago

• Looking for software to search inside zip files

  DocFetcher? https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html. Source: over 1 year ago

• How do you organize yourself?

  I use Outlook for e-mail and calendars. I use Evernote to store my notes. I also have a folder in Dropbox called "docs" where I store TXT (and others like DOCX and PDF etc) files for tasks/projects like the cisco firmware update example. I use DocFetcher (https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html) to perform search on the stored notes in TXT / DOCX / PDF / etc. Source: over 1 year ago