EXREX(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, say hi to exrex — it's the manual page for exrex 0.11.0, and it's literally a whole little machine that makes strings out of your regular expressions ✨

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically, here's the whole vibe of how you call it 👇

usage: exrex [-h] [-o FILE] [-l N] [-c] [-m N] [-r] [-s] [-d DELIMITER]
[-v]

       REGEX

and what even is it? exrex - regular expression string generator 💅 that's the whole job. you hand it a regex, it hands you back the strings that match it. iconic behaviour, no cap 🫶

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🎀 positional arguments:

• REGEX — the REGEX string, bestie. this is the one you're feeding in 🍓

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🔥 options:

• -h, --help — shows this help message and then dips out. the classic exit strategy 😌
• -o, --output FILE — write the output to a file. default is STDOUT, so if you say nothing it just goes straight to your terminal 💻
• -l, --limit N — the max limit for range size. default is 20 — she has boundaries, and honestly? good for her 🌸
• -c, --count — counts the matching strings instead of printing them all out. math girl era 🔢
• -m, --max-number N — max number of strings. default is -1, which is giving "no limit, we go until we're done" 💀
• -r, --random — returns a random string that matches to the regex. chaos, but make it compliant 🎲
• -s, --simplify — simplifies a regular expression. glow-up but for regex 🦋
• -d, --delimiter DELIMITER — the delimiter between things. default is \n (a newline, obviously) ✨
• -v, --verbose — verbose mode. she's talking, she's explaining, she's keeping you in the loop 🗣️

ngl bestie, -m defaulting to -1 means "unlimited" — so if your regex is feeling generous with matches, that's on you 🙈

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exrex 0.11.0 · September 2025 — that's the version and the date, mwah, she's stamped and official 👑 thanks for coming to my ted talk, go generate some strings, periodt 💜🧚