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McGruff
PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2005 8:42 pm 
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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/
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The Monkey
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Cool, this will come in very handy.

Thank you :)
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John Cartwright
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Maybe afterall it is time I dwell in the magical world of regex ;)
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phpScott
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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? :x
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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::
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Great, This should make searching/finding info on various regexp much easier :)
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Skara
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alright! too many RE questions floating around. :P
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neophyte
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Quick! Someone ask a REGEX question!!!!!



:lol:
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patrikG
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How many regEx does it take to change a lightbulb? ;)



Answer:

\d
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The Monkey
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*Bangs head on desk*

That was awful. :P
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Chris Corbyn
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The Monkey wrote:
*Bangs head on desk*

That was awful. :P


heh... Must be a regex thing.... I actualy thought it was very funny (still laughing :P )
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Skara
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hahaha. pretty funny, man. :P
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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
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sweatje
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patrikG wrote:
How many regEx does it take to change a lightbulb? ;)



Answer:

\d


I am pretty sure the answer is

\d(?<!0)
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Chris Corbyn
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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 :P

I guess you meant a lookahead ;)

\d(?!0)

o_O d11wtq is Mr Pedantic for the rest of the day :P
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