QuickREx2

QuickREx2 is a regular-expression plugin for Eclipse. It features on-the-fly evalution, code-completion, group-navigation, different engines and a library for regular expressions.

This project is based on QuickREx (http://sourceforge.net/projects/quickrex).

Additionally to the original plugin this one has a button for importing a regular expression from the editor pane. This is very helpful if the regular expression has escaped characters in the regex string.

Imagine there is a Java file with a regex pattern like:
"My\\s\"product\"\\scosts\\$\\d+\\.\\d{2}"
To use this in the original QuickREx you have to copy the pattern, paste it into the plugins input field and remove 1 level of all the escapes:
My\s"product"\scosts\$\d+\.\d{2}

Using QucikREx2 this is done by mark the regex and press the import button ... done.