Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Regex Review

I've been a little out of practice using regexs since finishing Graduate School. While in school I was using a lot of Perl and thus a lot of regexs. Now at work my regex experience has been limited to using grep to parse out certain lines from files.

I decided to spend some time reviewing regexs today so I wouldn't loose this very useful programming skill. I found several posts from a blog written by Mike Malone where he covers regexs on several levels.

  1. The absolute bare minimum every programmer should know about regular expressions

  2. 5 Regular Expressions Every Web Programmer Should Know

  3. Extreme regex foo: what you need to know to become a regular expression pro


And here is one link from my del.icio.us that provides an overall cheatsheet of regular expressions.

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