If you’ve ever done any serious programming you’ll have run into something called regular expressions: … (abbreviated regex or regexp and sometimes called a rational expression) is a sequence of ...

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 ...

How to use the regular expression functions provided by the ‘re’ library to match, search, and replace text in your Python programs. Regular expressions, or “regex,” is a system for finding complex ...

Regular expressions give Tim Patrick the creeps, but he overcame his fears by discovering specially crafted regex patterns can access data in a way that’s actually kind of cool. I've always been ...

We aren’t sure how we feel about [pemistahl’s] grex program. On the one hand, we applaud a program that can take some input samples and produce a regular expression. On the other hand, it might be ...

Tony Northrup is a developer, security consultant and author with more than 10 years of professional experience developing applications for Microsoft Windows. Developers frequently need to process ...