The latest JavaScript specification standardizes a well-balanced and thoughtful set of features, including the built-in ...

Regex commands basically help you find (and/or replace) non definite values. For example, let’s say you have a list of URLs and you need to break them down into just the TLD (Top Level Domain).

Working with regular expressions I’m also going to cover how to work with regular expressions in JavaScript, though the concepts learned here apply to other languages as well.

Excellent tutorials for regular expressions are all over the Web, so I’m not going to include an overview here. Instead, I’ll present a few common recipes that I hope people will find useful ...

Regular Expressions come in very handy in your projects when you’re looking to manipulate text input in the form of a control or a file, whether it’s HTML, SMTP, XML, or another format.

Regular expressions — the things you feed to programs like grep — are a bit like riding a bike. It seems impossible until you learn to do it, and then it’s easy.

But grep isn’t the only program that uses regular expressions. Awk, sed, Perl, editors like VIM and emacs, and many other programs can use regular expressions for pattern matching.

Regular expressions can be cryptic anyway and even the slightest typo can change everything, so the extra syntax needed for the Java version is more that can go wrong.

Regular expressions -- those scary strings that might as well be written in Klingon to the average person -- can be a vast time-saver. They help in one of the most common tasks of programming: string ...

Regular expressions also provide special characters to represent common character ranges. You could use “ [0-9]” to match any numeric digit, or you can use “\d”. Similarly, “\D” matches any ...