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Welcome to the new regex forum.

Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 8:42 pm
by McGruff
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/

Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 9:18 pm
by The Monkey
Cool, this will come in very handy.

Thank you :)

Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 9:45 pm
by John Cartwright
Maybe afterall it is time I dwell in the magical world of regex ;)

Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 3:35 am
by phpScott
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

Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 3:36 am
by malcolmboston
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::

Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 5:46 am
by vigge89
Great, This should make searching/finding info on various regexp much easier :)

Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 8:02 am
by Skara
alright! too many RE questions floating around. :P

Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 8:06 am
by neophyte
Quick! Someone ask a REGEX question!!!!!



:lol:

Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 8:45 am
by patrikG
How many regEx does it take to change a lightbulb? ;)



Answer:

\d

Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 8:47 am
by The Monkey
*Bangs head on desk*

That was awful. :P

Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 5:55 pm
by Chris Corbyn
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 )

Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 6:21 pm
by Skara
hahaha. pretty funny, man. :P

Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:01 am
by m3mn0n

Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:30 am
by sweatje
patrikG wrote:How many regEx does it take to change a lightbulb? ;)



Answer:

\d
I am pretty sure the answer is

\d(?<!0)

Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:46 am
by Chris Corbyn
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