I was in the same situation the other day and came across:
http://www.txt2re.com/
It's superb at just getting things done, well until I get round to
reading 'Mastering Regular expressions'
On 27/03/2008, Ottavio Caruso <tat07x202@???> wrote:
> Hello penguins,
>
> does anybody know a site where one could put and text some regular
> expressions without squeezing one's brain?
>
> Are there any interactive command line applications (shell or perl
> scripts) that can help in creating these regex?
>
> Customers are calling me asking to create regex to filter their mail
> messages out but I am too lazy to study Perl or regex, I wonder if there
> is any such tool.
>
> Thanks.
>
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