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 ...

Let’s say we need a JavaScript function that will take a string of tagged text (that is, it contains Extensible Markup Language (XML) markup) and return only the tags (and not the text that the tags ...

If you’ve programmed in Perl or any other language with built-in regular-expression capabilities, then you probably know how much easier regular expressions make text processing and pattern matching.

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 ...

Regular expressions come in handy for all varieties of text processing, but are often misunderstood--even by veteran developers. Here's a look at intermediate-level regular expressions and what they ...

Regular expressions are a way to describe patterns of text that can be useful for processing text documents or wherever one might want to look for a pattern and possibly replace another. Imagine you ...