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.

JavaScript’s RegExp object, which holds a regular expression, is what we need here. Regular expressions are a big subject, and there are plenty of FAQs on them on the Web.

Quick: If you shout "regular expressions" in a crowd of Linux users, what happens? Answer: Everyone will tell you the right way to use them, and every answer will be different. Regular expressions ...

And it’s that latter camp, of which we consider ourself a proud member, that is rejoicing with the announcement that Microsoft is adding regular expression support to Excel.