RegExer - The online regular expression tester for ColdFusion
I published a new project to RIA Forge today named "RegExer." Now I know there are many ways to test regular expressions, including some on the web, stand-alone apps, and even eclipse plug-ins, but I wanted one that I could (1) run locally on my development machine and (2) would be tested directly against ColdFusion to be assured of the correct matching algorithm.
The online application that came closest to what I wanted was Jon Hartmann's CFREGEX Tester, but there didn't appear to be anywhere for me to download it nor any good way to contact Jon about sharing the code. So based off some of his UI, I forged my own.
In addition, I added a few features to Jon's that I wanted/needed: (1) the ability to see the matching string, (2) the ability to run the test via ajax, and (3) the ability to keep track of the expressions I was testing.
I have tested it with ColdFusion 8 since that is my development environment, but it should work fine in ColdFusion 7 by changing one line of code from using the CF8 built-in function SerializeJSON() to invoking the json component (included in the zip). If someone has ColdFusion 7 and wants to give it a whirl, it would be great to know if that's the only change that needs to happen.
Any other features others have wished for?

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