Help documentation for CodVerter's Multiple Regex Pattern Scanner, an on-line free tool to scan data for many regular expression patterns at once.

Purpose

Detect and find multiple regex patterns in text with advanced options to extract, replace and add text before/after patterns’ matches

When to Use

When you need to find many patterns in data, count amount of matches, extract only matches without other text, replace matches with a different text, add text to matches

How to Use

Tool has 5 modes:

  • Detect - find many different patterns in text with option to add their names at the end of each line
  • Extract - extract only matches with their location in text
  • Concatenate - add text before/after patterns’ matches
  • Replace - replace patterns’ matches with text
  • Analyze - present a summary with amount of matches found
Insert text to the editor, select a mode, add regex patterns to the table and press the "Convert" button to display results.

Sample

Detect mode results

Detect mode results

Detect mode results with Append Name option

Detect mode results with Append Name option

Extract mode results

Extract mode results

Concatenate mode results, added ((( before and ))) after example1 pattern

Concatenate mode results, added ((( before and ))) after example1 pattern

Detect mode results with Append Name option

Replace mode results, replaces example1 with the word NUMBER

Analyze mode results

Analyze mode results

Nice to Know

You can import a text file by drag and drop it as input to the editor, and save output as a text file on your computer.

Want to continue working on your output results? Press "Continue in Text Editor" and enjoy all the other functional editing options we provide.


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