regexlib.com— A library of pre-written regular expressions that you can plug into your code. Also, features a regular expression online testing engine against inputted text or a website text. Very handy resource!
Jul 8, 2005View in Crawl 4
Learning regular expressions can be a whole lot easier when you have lots of examples to study. A site like this is also very valuable when you need a quick regexp, but personally, I don't blindly use the patterns in a programming job until I break them down and see if they really do what they claim.
Crap, I'm getting an error from the page....even when I use their example keyword "email". Oh well, my ADD-induced attention span has moved onto something else.I agree with vuzman that everyone needs to learn regular expressions. However, I don't think they are taught properly to people. When you look at the standard programming languages that implement regxp's, they only provide some cryptic expression and then provide some one-liner comment about what it is searching for. I prefer Python's verbose regular expression syntax, it helps people come back to the code 6 months later and still understand what the hell the expression is doing.
digasonJul 8, 2005
And if it were done in something other than ASP.NET, that page might actually be able to perform a simple word search.
blitzpig_salJul 8, 2005
Learning regular expressions can be a whole lot easier when you have lots of examples to study. A site like this is also very valuable when you need a quick regexp, but personally, I don't blindly use the patterns in a programming job until I break them down and see if they really do what they claim.
scottbrownJul 8, 2005
Crap, I'm getting an error from the page....even when I use their example keyword "email". Oh well, my ADD-induced attention span has moved onto something else.I agree with vuzman that everyone needs to learn regular expressions. However, I don't think they are taught properly to people. When you look at the standard programming languages that implement regxp's, they only provide some cryptic expression and then provide some one-liner comment about what it is searching for. I prefer Python's verbose regular expression syntax, it helps people come back to the code 6 months later and still understand what the hell the expression is doing.
hansianJan 6, 2010
I agree with BlitzPig_Sal it will be a whole lot easier when you have lots of examples to study regular expression. And finally you may need to test the regular expression with the regexp tester.<a class="user" href="http://www.pagecolumn.com/tool/regtest.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.pagecolumn.com/tool/regtest.htm</a>