Expresso Changelog

What's new in Expresso 3.0 Beta

Jun 6, 2007
  • Still free of charge!
  • Build complex regular expressions by selecting components from a palette
  • Test expressions against real or sample input data
  • Display all matches in a tree structure, showing captured groups, and all captures within a group
  • Build replacement strings and test the match and replace functionality
  • Highlight matched text in the input data
  • Test automatically for syntax errors
  • Generate Visual Basic or C# code
  • Save and restore data in a project file
  • Maintain and expand a library of frequently used regular expressions

New in Expresso 2.1 (Jun 2, 2006)

  • Expresso Analyzer interprets and diagrams a regular expression to aid in understanding and debugging
  • Analyzer produces an English description of the expression that can be automatically incorporated into comments in the generated code
  • Improvements to the user interface
  • New "Partial Match" and "Exclude Match" enable testing selected portions of a regular expression to aid in debugging
  • Code generation now supports Managed C
  • More extensive options for customizing the generated code
  • Multithreaded operation allows interruption of time-consuming matches
  • Performance tester for timing optimization
  • Improvements and added features in the Expression Builder
  • More extensive Help features
  • Built-in regular expression tutorial
  • Improvements to the Expression Library
  • Bug Fixes