Regex Generator
Describe what you want to match — emails, dates, phone numbers, URLs or your own format — and get a regular expression with a plain-English breakdown and examples.
How it works
- 1
Describe the pattern
What should match, and anything that shouldn't.
- 2
Pick your language
So the syntax and flags are right.
- 3
Test and use it
Copy the regex and try the examples in your code.
Regular expressions without the guesswork
Regular expressions are incredibly useful and notoriously hard to read. The VirtuaChat Regex Generator writes the pattern for you from a plain description and explains every part, so you understand what you're pasting into your code.
Choose the flavour — JavaScript, Python, PHP (PCRE), Java, .NET, Go or POSIX — and describe what should and shouldn't match. You get the regex, a token-by-token breakdown, examples of strings that match and strings that don't, and the flags you need. For validating input, it also notes where a regex alone isn't enough (email addresses are a classic example).
Paste an existing regex into the description to have it explained or fixed instead.
Any flavour
JavaScript, Python, PHP, Java, .NET, Go and POSIX.
Token-by-token
Every part of the pattern explained in plain words.
Match examples
Strings that match — and ones that don't — so you can check it.
Frequently asked questions
Want to go further?
Open the result in the VirtuaChat chat and refine it in plain words — shorter, warmer, more detailed.