Regex

V-Grep
Free - Piotr Chodzinski

Easy to use while feature-rich application that brings regular expressions power to the typical Windows users. Regular expressions are using basic concept of the masks but they add even more special characters that can represent definite number of characters, optional phrases etc. You can specify expressions representing complex patterns that are difficult or impossible to find using only masks, such as: e-mail addresses, telephone numbers etc.

search, group count, group, regex find, pluck, scan, java regex, regular, expression, debug, regular expression, version number, find

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BareGrep
Free - Bare Metal Software Pty Ltd

A free file finding and text searching tool: * Regular expression text search * High performance search algorithm * Wildcard and regular expression file search * Recursive directory search * Save, name and manage text search patterns * Interactive, incremental search * Extract data with capturing groups * Tabular presentation of search results * Export/copy search results in many formats * Search files of any size (> 2GB)

version, java, updates, revisions, check, patches, fast, file, java web start, quoter, properties, applet, applets

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FileFilters
Free - Canadian Mind Products

FilenameFilters you can use in your own Java programs with File.list( FilenameFilter f ). They can also be used standalone as fancy dir commands. Also includes CommandLine to parse command line and collects directory trees. Includes AllDirectoriesFilte, AllFilesFilter,ClamFilter, DirListFilter, EndsWithFilter, ExtensionFilter, EverythingFilter, FileLengthFilter, FilenameLengthFilter and FileListFilter.

html, extract, images, environment, multiple files, files, wildcard, filenamefilter, filefilter, text, filter, windows, grep

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WinMerge
Free - Thingamahoochie Software

WinMerge is a tool for visual difference display and merging, for both files and directories. WinMerge has Unicode support, Flexible syntax coloring editor, and Windows Shell integration. Regexp filtering for filenames and lines. Side-by-side line difference and highlights differences inside lines. A file map shows the overall file differences in a location pane. The user interface is translated into several languages.

library, win32, archive, capturing group, baregrep, reg expr, command line, cd text, open source, compressed, syncronize, differencing, catalog

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