Tool for creating RegExp from string

[Jone]

Hello All,
Are there any tool available that can create basic regular expression from a
string?

Cheers,

 

[Stefan Ram]

Are there any tool available that can create basic regular
expression from a string?

http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#quote(java.lang.String)

 

[Roedy Green]

Hello All,
Are there any tool available that can create basic regular expression from a
string?

Quoter will create a regex string, with the necessary chars quoted.
However, that is not directly useful. You need some variable parts
otherwise you might as well not have used a reqex.

See http://mindprod.com/applet/quoter.html

 

[Daniel Pitts]

Hello All,
Are there any tool available that can create basic regular expression from a
string?

Cheers,

// Works for some values of x ;-(
public String basicRegEx(String x) { return x; }

// Works for all values of x ;-)
public String basicRegEx(String x) { return Pattern.quote(x); }