Regular expressions are useful when searching for both 'apple' and 'apple' in text or extracting all lines containing URLs in a text file, but there are many people who know the basic mechanics of ...

If you’ve struggled with regular expressions that took hours to match when you needed them to complete in seconds, this article is for you. Java developer Cristian Mocanu explains where and why the ...

If you consider yourself a good cook, you may or may not know how to make a souffle or baklava. But there are certain things you probably do know how to do that form the basis of many recipes. For ...

Introducing ArkRegex: a revolutionary drop-in for JavaScript's RegExp that ensures type safety in regular expressions without ...

I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...

Quick: If you shout "regular expressions" in a crowd of Linux users, what happens? Answer: Everyone will tell you the right way to use them, and every answer will be different. Regular expressions -- ...

You can do a lot more with regular expressions than you think. In this tutorial, you'll use it to convert a movie list into a CSV file for use in Excel. In Part 1 and Part 2 in this series about ...

Regular expressions are like power tools: They may look scary, but are easy to use once you understand their basic building blocks. Regular expressions -- those scary strings that might as well be ...

Regular expressions — the things you feed to programs like grep — are a bit like riding a bike. It seems impossible until you learn to do it, and then it’s easy. Part of their bad reputation is ...