The people who attended my presentations at RMOUG Training Days 2010 asked several good questions. One question that was asked in the Groovy presentation that I really wish I had included a slide on ...

Regular expressions come in handy for all varieties of text processing, but are often misunderstood–even by veteran developers. Here’s a look at intermediate-level regular expressions and what they ...

Every programmer can find uses for regular expressions, but their power doesn’t come worry-free. Even seasoned users often suffer from poor performance, false positives, false negatives, or perplexing ...

Imagine you are looking for a name in a telephone directory, but you can't remember its exact spelling. You can spend ages searching through all the possible combinations, unless you have a tool that ...

Once you get the hang of regular expressions, you'll find them invaluable. The trick is to start small - I'll show you how. Quick: If you shout “regular expressions” in a crowd of Linux users, what ...

Regular expressions are a common feature of computer languages, especially higher-level languages like Ruby, Perl, Python, and others, for doing fairly sophisticated text-pattern matching. Some ...

I was just wondering what people think is the best C++ regular expressions library. I have seen three so far: the libary bundled with Boost, GRETA, and Zopyra. I'm not really looking for super general ...

Take control of your data and filter out what doesn't help you to improve your search strategy. Learn how with this guide to regex for SEO. Perhaps you’ve heard of regex but aren’t quite sure how it ...

The "failglob" option will probably be of interest to many users. When set, this option will cause an error when a regular expression fails to match any files ...