Console app that monitors a regex you are editing and spams the matches with groups to the console. All matches are abbreviated (middle removed) to fit the width of the console, should work on most Go compatible syste,s.
rgxmon regexfile targetfileThe regexfile is a text file with the regex you are authoring.
The targetfile is the file the regex is being tested against.
I often write long regex with groups that capture specific fields. This lets me see the result as I edit each group to match the bit I want.
Also this is my first Go program apart from 'hello world'.
The terminal width faield on my Windows Quake-style Bash ConEmu. I've set it to default to 80 chars width whern it fails.
The Wiccan Rede about sums it up:
An’ ye harm none, do what ye will
MIT license for those of you need a real licence.