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- scottbrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Crap, 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. - BlitzPig_Sal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Learning 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.
- digason, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And if it were done in something other than ASP.NET, that page might actually be able to perform a simple word search.
- vuzman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you don't know what regular expressions are, there's a good chance you need to find out. It's very handy for pattern matching, and especially for searching. Regular search and replace tasks can become so much easier with regexps. Most advanced text editors have regexp support (TextPad, PSPad, UltraEdit, etc.)
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