EasyPatternHelper - Design and test EasyPatterns and perl patterns

<p>EasyPatterns?are a <b>revolutionary new way </b>to describe text patterns,

in a way that is easy to understand, easy to use, and with plenty of power under

the hood. EasyPatterns make searching for a US phone number in text as easy as </p>

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<p>[ PhoneNumber ]</p>

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<p>or if you prefer the long way:</p>

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<p>[ optional punctuation, 3 digits, punctuation, 3 digits, <br>

punctuation, 4 digits ]</p>

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<p>Once you've found a phone number, it's easy to re-arrange it or reformat it.

Using this pattern:</p>

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<p>[ optional punctuation, capture(3 digits), punctuation, <br>

capture(3 digits), punctuation, capture(4 digits) ]</p>

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<p>...we could re-arrange phone numbers like this:</p>

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<p>$1.$2.$3<br>

($1) $2-$3<br>

+1.$1.$2.$3</p>

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<p>How easy is that!</p>

<p>You can easily control the quantity of text you match, and include literal

text like this:</p>

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<p>[ 1 or more digits, '.', 2 digits ]<br>

$[ 2+ digits, '.', 2 digits ]<br>

USD [ 3 to 6 digits ].00</p>

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<p>You can easily match dates like this:</p>

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