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 ...

The people who attended my presentations at RMOUG Training Days 2010 asked several good questions. One question that was asked in the Groovy presentation that I really wish I had included a slide on ...

Regular expressions are a common feature of computer languages, especially higher-level languages like Ruby, Perl, Python, and others, for doing fairly sophisticated text-pattern matching. Some ...

Every programmer can find uses for regular expressions, but their power doesn’t come worry-free. Even seasoned users often suffer from poor performance, false positives, false negatives, or perplexing ...

Imagine you are looking for a name in a telephone directory, but you can't remember its exact spelling. You can spend ages searching through all the possible combinations, unless you have a tool that ...

Once you get the hang of regular expressions, you'll find them invaluable. The trick is to start small - I'll show you how. Quick: If you shout “regular expressions” in a crowd of Linux users, what ...

Trying to find specific information within text or input can be a nightmare. Luckily, there is a way to simplify this process. Regular expressions (regex) consist of a sequence of characters that ...

I was just wondering what people think is the best C++ regular expressions library. I have seen three so far: the libary bundled with Boost, GRETA, and Zopyra. I'm not really looking for super general ...