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 decode some data in Javascript and I thought regular expressions might help. The data is a string like so: I'm trying to avoid using a loop to then split(",") each array item. So is ...

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 ...

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've ever worked with regular expressions, you know how difficult and tedious it is to craft complex regex code. However, while it won't work in every situation, REGex Tester, an online regular ...

I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...