Peter's beginning a self-improvement course in using regular expressions, at least when doing searches in Visual Studio. As part of achieving that goal, he's decided that the Find Files option is his ...

A more general solution is to use RegEx (regular expressions) to define a pattern that meets your desired requirements. Regular expressions are as complicated as they are powerful.

Many tools use regular expressions and the core syntax is the same. The source of confusion is that the details beyond core syntax have variations.

Regular expressions are a powerful tool for manipulating textual information, allowing you to perform the sophisticated processing you describe. Before I explain the solution, let's back up one ...

How to Use Regular Expressions to Group Pages in Google Analytics. Custom segments are powerful tools used for a variety of reporting. Combined with regular expressions, segments can be customized ...

Regular expressions are a powerful computing tool, with near-mythical status in some programming circles (here is one of my favorite online comic series' ...

From validating IP addresses to phone numbers, these are some of the handiest expressions in Boe's PowerShell toolbox. What are yours? As this article states, I want to show some of the regular ...

Regular expressions are a powerful programming tool, and the best way to solve many problems, but few people would call them a delight to use. Trying to tune a regex to match exactly the string ...

I use the Jakarta-ORO regular expression library because it is one of the most comprehensive APIs available and is fully compatible with Perl 5 regular expressions.

Tool Chest There are a few things that are important in our quest for literate regular expressions. The idea is to have a small program that converts our literate text into a regular expression.