Regular expressions have been part of the programmer’s toolkit for a long time, with their creation by Stephen Cole King in 1951. Their ability to match word patterns make them a powerful tool for ...

The first time I ever encountered a regular expression was many years ago now, but I still remember my first thoughts on it: What is this string-like thing? I don’t want to touch it, it looks scary. I ...

Mozilla has outfitted its SpiderMonkey JavaScript runtime with a new regular expressions (RegExps) engine, to make it easier to support modern RegExps features. The new RegExp engine debuts in the ...

Regular expressions come in handy for all varieties of text processing, but are often misunderstood–even by veteran developers. Here’s a look at intermediate-level regular expressions and what they ...

Search and replace is a key part of most text editors, and it’s generally very simple to use: type a keyword, press [Enter] to look for it, then step through however many matches there might be. This ...