The RegExr recommendation doesn't seem to be helping users 'well-enough'(tm). See #1336848: How to: match data with regex and related regex support requests.

RegExr is more helpful for figuring out what a pattern does than helping you build one. It's nice that it has a great section of Community contributed patterns, but it'd more useful in our case if we included some type of builder as well, so toward that end I think we need to do a bit more research and figure out what constitutes a viable improvement. Here's what I found so far:

* http://txt2re.com/ (this looks the most promising)
* http://www.jslab.dk/tools.regex.php
* http://regexpal.com/

See also, other open regex feature requests

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Regexper - Regular expression visualizer
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I absolutely do not want to get involved with including a pattern builder in core Rules. If someone wants to do this in a separate module, that's fine with me, but we can't possibly support something like that in core Rules.