Month: May 2012

  • How to test your regular expression

    Of course, the ultimate tool is RegexBuddy by Jan Goyvaerts. I personally don’t have it at the moment, but I surely need to get it soon. It supports various languages, gives you detailed explanation on each part, you can step through the matching process … But if you use regex not often and do only small ones, […]

  • What absolutely every Programmer should know about regular expressions

    No, I am not going into theoretical definitions. I am going to talk about regex in todays computer languages and applications. I am surprised how many programmers think regexes are complicated and ask e.g. on Stackoverflow for a regex for a specific task. They will get most probably an answer, if they ask nicely. But […]