---
name: "kiki"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "kiki"
version: "0.5.6-8.1"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kiki"
---

# kiki(6)

tool for python regular expression testing

## NAME

kiki — tool for python regular expression testing

## SYNOPSIS

**kiki**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page was written for the **Debian** distribution  because the original program does not have a manual page.

A free environment for regular expression testing (ferret).  It allowsyou to write regexes and test them against a sample  text, providing extensive output about the results. It is useful  for several purposes:

\- exploring and understanding the structure of match objects  generated by the re module, making Kiki a valuable tool for  people new to regexes.

\- testing regexes on sample text before deploying them in  code.

## OPTIONS

This program does not take any command line options.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Franz Pletz fpletz@franz-pletz.org for  the **Debian** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any   later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.