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Paisley is a nifty (if I do say so myself) pattern detector, written in the Perl scripting language, that employs regular expressions to do its work. (Note that you'll need to run it from Terminal.app.)

Paisley was developed initially with the intention of being a companion to Quotient as a repetend-detector. It has, however, nothing that ties it inextricably into a number-searching scheme; it works on strings of all sorts.

Supported schemes are directional pattern searching (dropping characters from left-to-right or right-to-left across a string until a pattern constituting the remainder is found) and non-directional pattern searching (looking for a pattern making up an entire string).

• Note: For detailed program information, use the command-line `-h' flag (sans quotes); for license information, use the `-l' flag.
• Last Modified: 7 February 2009
• License: BSD

Click here to download Paisley.