The first time I ever encountered a regular expression was many years ago now, but I still remember my first thoughts on it: What is this string-like thing? I don’t want to touch it, it looks scary. I ...

I'm trying to write a regular expression that will search through a collection of html text, searching for special tags denoted with square brackets:<BR><BR><pre ...

In the Star Wars universe, not everyone uses a lightsaber, and those who do wield them had to build them themselves. There’s something to be said about that strategy. Building a car or a radio is a ...

Svend, thanks for the response.<BR><BR>The test character I'm using is an n with a tilde above it. I don't remember the exact unicode value for it, but it should fall within the range I include in the ...

Regex is a powerful – yet overlooked – tool in search and data analysis. With just a single line, you can automate what would otherwise take dozens of lines of code. Short for “regular expression,” ...