Welcome to the new regex forum.

McGruff · Post by **McGruff** » Thu May 05, 2005 8:42 pm

Regex was invented by evil madmen. At least it seems like that at first - soon it starts to make sense. If there was a Society for Semasiological Research, and they awarded prizes for languages which cram the most meaning into the smallest number of symbols, regex would sweep the board.

Try these links to get started and post questions or useful expressions in this forum.

http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html
http://www.evolt.org/article/rating/20/22700/index.html

And don't forget this handy tool: http://weitz.de/regex-coach/

The Monkey · Post by **The Monkey** » Thu May 05, 2005 9:18 pm

Cool, this will come in very handy.

Thank you

Post by **John Cartwright** » Thu May 05, 2005 9:45 pm

Maybe afterall it is time I dwell in the magical world of regex

phpScott · Post by **phpScott** » Fri May 06, 2005 3:35 am

Thanks McGruff now I will have no excuse not to understand the basics of regex. No what will I be able to tell my boss?

malcolmboston · Post by **malcolmboston** » Fri May 06, 2005 3:36 am

good idea, ill be here way too much, somebody writing a small tutorial for regex noobs would be a nice way to open the board ::hint hint::

vigge89 · Post by **vigge89** » Fri May 06, 2005 5:46 am

Great, This should make searching/finding info on various regexp much easier

Skara · Post by **Skara** » Fri May 06, 2005 8:02 am

alright! too many RE questions floating around.

neophyte · Post by **neophyte** » Fri May 06, 2005 8:06 am

Quick! Someone ask a REGEX question!!!!!

patrikG · Post by **patrikG** » Fri May 06, 2005 8:45 am

How many regEx does it take to change a lightbulb?

Answer:

\d

The Monkey · Post by **The Monkey** » Fri May 06, 2005 8:47 am

*Bangs head on desk*

That was awful.

Post by **Chris Corbyn** » Sat May 07, 2005 5:55 pm

The Monkey wrote:*Bangs head on desk*

That was awful.

heh... Must be a regex thing.... I actualy thought it was very funny (still laughing

)

Skara · Post by **Skara** » Sat May 07, 2005 6:21 pm

hahaha. pretty funny, man.

m3mn0n · Post by **m3mn0n** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:01 am

Here is some more links:

http://weblogtoolscollection.com/regex/regex.php
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/dario19990616.php3
http://www.articlecity.com/articles/web ... _360.shtml

sweatje · Post by **sweatje** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:30 am

patrikG wrote:How many regEx does it take to change a lightbulb?

Answer:

\d

I am pretty sure the answer is

\d(?<!0)

Post by **Chris Corbyn** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:46 am

sweatje wrote:
patrikG wrote:How many regEx does it take to change a lightbulb?

Answer:

\d
I am pretty sure the answer is

\d(?<!0)

That's a lookbehind done wrong

I guess you meant a lookahead

\d(?!0)

o_O d11wtq is Mr Pedantic for the rest of the day