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Last updated: April 13, 2026

Regex Tester for Go Developers

Quick Answer

DevToolHQ's regex tester works great alongside Go. Use it to quickly regex tester during development, then integrate the pattern into your Go codebase using the code example below.

Use Cases in Go

  • 1.Validate email, phone, and username formats
  • 2.Parse and extract data from log files
  • 3.Define URL routing patterns
  • 4.Sanitize user input before processing

Go Code Example

Go
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "regexp"
)

var (
    emailRE = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-zA-Z0-9._%+\-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.\-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$`)
    urlRE   = regexp.MustCompile(`https?://[^\s]+`)
)

func main() {
    // Test a match
    fmt.Println(emailRE.MatchString("user@example.com")) // true

    // Find all URLs in text
    text := "Visit https://example.com or http://test.io"
    urls := urlRE.FindAllString(text, -1)
    fmt.Println(urls)

    // Named groups
    logRE := regexp.MustCompile(`(?P<level>ERROR|INFO) (?P<msg>.+)`)
    m := logRE.FindStringSubmatch("ERROR Something broke")
    fmt.Println(m[1], m[2]) // ERROR Something broke
}

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