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 ...

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

One of the most powerful tools included in every word processor or text editor is the ability to find and replace text. This tool is invaluable to any writer or coder who needs to find a string (that ...

If you work with strings in your Python scripts and you're writing obscure logic to process them, then you need to look into ...

The String.split methods can be very convenient for easily splitting a provided String based on a provided regular expression String. The only trick is figuring out a regular expression token to use ...

A quick run down on how you can use regular expressions in your own programs to give you more power over searching and substituting text. Perl has long been an extremely popular choice for text ...

When working with regular expressions in a shell script the norm is to use grep or sed or some other external command/program. Since version 3 of bash (released in 2004) there is another option: ...

This article explains what regex (or regular expressions) is and how to get started using it with web crawlers, plus some interesting real-world use cases. One technology skill that is too-often ...

Regular expressions are a big subject, and there are plenty of FAQs on them on the Web. As far as JavaScript is concerned, though, you need only set a variable equal to a specially formatted series of ...

The first half of this tutorial introduced you to regular expressions and the Regex API. You learned about the Pattern class, then worked through examples demonstrating regex constructs, from basic ...