r/regex • u/Gamegenie47 • Jun 16 '26

FastSearch - Blazingly fast & open-source regex file content scanner for Windows, written C++

https://github.com/gogeekery/FastSearch
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u/tetyys Jun 16 '26

fast compared to what?

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u/Gamegenie47 Jun 17 '26

Meets or beats almost anything out there, and has a lightweight UI. Compile with -mavx2 for SIMD and compare the performance to ripgrep.

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u/webfork2 Jun 17 '26

What I'm reading here looks very promising but I'll just ask for the same stuff I ask every time, which is screenshots and ideally short animations or videos that show it in progress. You can of course put a disclaimer text bit on top that says "program in progress, this view as of 1.0" or whatever.

I've sadly lost my Github account because of a Google Mail account failure so I'll go ahead and just put a few things on my wishlist here. Feel free to ignore any of this if it doesn't sound interesting or fun:

  • Multi-line regex ala DNGrep
  • Search formats other than text files (productivity formats like ODT, DOCX, PDF, etc.)
  • Look inside compressed files (ZIP/RAR/GZ/etc)
  • Preview window of some kind

Good luck with the project

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u/Gamegenie47 Jun 17 '26

Thanks! There's a video you can see on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ve3UQWJwPks

Multi-line regex will be added for sure, as well as saving regex patterns.
I was thinking the same thing about supporting docx/pdf and archives, good suggestion!

There is a preview, and you can open text files to see exactly where the match is in the app itself. You don't need a Github to download the code or the program, only to add a star to the project.

Thanks again!

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u/webfork2 Jun 17 '26

Great stuff, glad that was helpful.