regular expressions

Regex use vs. Regex abuse

I’m a huge fan of regular expressions; they’re the Swiss army knife of web-era development tools. I’m always finding new places to use them in my code. Although other developers I work with may be uncomfortable with regular expressions at first, I eventually convert them to the

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Gettin’ Greppy Wit It

We’re currently supporting a third party application that, in addition to producing some truly impressive WTFs, generates incredibly verbose log files with zillions of ‘error messages’ that aren’t really errors. This makes diagnosing problems in their server code* very difficult. It is, however, a great use for a

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RegexBuddy and Friends

Jan Goyvaerts released a new version of RegexBuddy today. I’ve talked about this tool before – it’s easily the best Regex tool available. Some feature highlights for this version are: * Built in GREP tool * Visual regular expression debugging support * Full unicode support The GREP tool is an unexpected bonus;

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My Buddy, Regex

I generally don't subscribe to the UNIX religion, but there is one area where I am an unabashed convert: regular expressions. Yeah, the syntax is a little scary, but for processing strings, nothing is more effective. The RegEx is the power drill of the programmer's toolkit:

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