Pattern matching is an important technique used in text processing, and Regex is here to help. Find out how to use the Pattern class and constructs like quantifiers and boundary matchers to ...

I use the example provided by Regular Expressions Cookbook Recipe 3.1 (“Literal Regular Expressions in Source Code”) to illustrate the advantages of Groovy in Pattern representation of a ...

If you work with text, you owe it to yourself to learn regular expressions, and Patterns can help you do that--as well as figure out exactly what your search patterns are capturing.

True When developing code with regular expressions, it is important to test with values that you know should match and those that you expect to fail. Before we wrap up today's lesson let's revisit the ...

Now that we know how to work with regular expressions and the different methods that are available to interact with, let’s spend some time building regular expressions to match the patterns we want.

However, regular expression functions are available in many programming languages that allow for complex pattern matching and text manipulation.

Javascript’s regular expression library is becoming world class, guaranteeing that the odd little pattern language will likely be around for generations to come.

Gruber recently improved the regex pattern again, and that seemed like a good opportunity to briefly detail how I’ve integrated his pattern in my workflows. The key to match URLs and provide ...

There is also a reason why using regular expressions can sometimes be called "prayer-based parsing" because, if not used properly, you could inadvertently allow the wrong data if your RegEx pattern ...

Even grep has some uncommon regular expression elements, so I’m only going to work with a subset of patterns, but they are the ones you tend to use the most.