diff --git a/tests/helloutl/Makefile b/tests/helloutl/Makefile
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+.PHONY: all
+all: test_utl
+
+# Needs a valid build directory to get SeerUtl.cpp.o
+test_utl: test_utl.cpp
+	g++ -I/usr/include/qt5 -g -o test_utl test_utl.cpp ../../src/build/CMakeFiles/seergdb.dir/SeerUtl.cpp.o -L/usr/lib64 -lQt5Core
+
+.PHONY: clean
+clean:
+	rm -f test_utl test_utl.o
+
diff --git a/tests/helloutl/test_utl.cpp b/tests/helloutl/test_utl.cpp
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+++ b/tests/helloutl/test_utl.cpp
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+#include "../../src/SeerUtl.h"
+#include <QtCore/QString>
+#include <QtCore/QStringList>
+#include <QtCore/QDebug>
+#include <QtCore/QRegExp>
+#include <iostream>
+
+int main (int argc, char** argv) {
+
+    Q_UNUSED(argc);
+    Q_UNUSED(argv);
+
+    //
+    //
+    //
+
+  //QString test = "\"r0\",\"\",\"\",\"r4\"";
+    QString test = "\"\",\"r0\",\"\",\"r4\"";
+    QString newtest = Seer::filterEscapes(test);
+
+    std::cout << test.toStdString() << std::endl;
+    std::cout << newtest.toStdString() << std::endl;
+
+    QStringList list = Seer::parse(test, "", '"', '"', false);
+
+    for ( const auto& name : list  ) {
+        std::cout << name.toStdString() << std::endl;
+    }
+
+    //
+    //
+    //
+
+    QString text = "1^done,value=\"0\"";
+
+    if (text.contains(QRegExp("^([0-9]+)\\^"))) {
+        qDebug() << text << "matches";
+    }else{
+        qDebug() << text << "doesn't match";
+    }
+
+    //
+    //
+    //
+
+    QString text2 = "1^done,value=\"\\\"Hello, World!\\\"\"";
+
+    qDebug() << text2;
+
+    QStringList list2 = Seer::parse(text2, "value=", '"', '"', false);
+
+    for ( const auto& name : list2  ) {
+        std::cout << name.toStdString() << std::endl;
+    }
+
+    //
+    //
+    //
+
+    QString text3 = "name = \"Pasveer, Ernie\", age = 60, salary = 0.25, location = {city = \"Houston\", state = \"Texas\", zip = 77063}";
+
+    qDebug() << text3;
+
+    QStringList list3 = Seer::parseCommaList(text3, '{', '}');
+
+    for ( const auto& name : list3  ) {
+
+        QStringPair pair = Seer::parseNameValue(name, '=');
+
+        std::cout << name.toStdString() << std::endl;
+        std::cout << pair.first.toStdString() << std::endl;
+        std::cout << pair.second.toStdString() << std::endl;
+        std::cout << std::endl;
+    }
+
+    //
+    //
+    //
+
+    QStringList lines;
+
+    bool f = Seer::readFile("test_utl.cpp", lines);
+
+    if (f == false) {
+        std::cout << "== Can't open file for Seer::readFile()" << std::endl;
+    }
+
+    std::cout << "== Lines from Seer::readFile()" << std::endl;
+
+    for ( const auto& line : lines  ) {
+        std::cout << line.toStdString();
+    }
+
+    std::cout << "== Done." << std::endl;
+
+    return 0;
+}
+