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My first regex tutorial
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:58 pm
by kerouac3001
Hi guys..this is my first post and i'm gonna promote a mine tutorial, so it can seem a bit "spam". If there is any problem just say it to me or edit my post.
I've written a regex tutorial for dummies and i wish to know what do you think about it
Here is the link to my
regex tutorial.
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:27 pm
by feyd
Errors:
- various grammatic errors
- Email verification non-compliant
[a-zA-z0-9_\.]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{0,4}
- Phone number pattern
[0-9]+\[0-9]+
- denying misspelled
"dening"
- forward assertion
extra Michael highlighted
Notes:
- It may be good to use the asterisk some more.
- I'm not sure I'd lump assertions with the question mark.
- An example of backward assertions could prove useful to some.
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:53 am
by kerouac3001
Thanks! it ll be very useful to me

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:12 am
by Chris Corbyn
Looks good to me, but take on board feyd's comments to correct those mistakes
One other thing I'd change "Class repetition operators" should really be called "Quantifiers" and on the same note, "?" is a quantifer {0,1} not an assertion. You can keep calling them class repetition operators if you like because it's a bit newbie-friendly, but I'd ceranly highlight the correct terminology otherwise reader will get confused when reading other topics around regular expressions.
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:30 am
by kerouac3001
Tnx!
My translator is a friend (not an expert) and he had a problem to translate some technical terms
I'll correct the tutorial
