I was looking for a forum focused on
Regular Expressions and this is what led me here. Surprisingly, there are very few such forums - and I mean
very few. A google search of "
regular expression forum" or "
regex forum" results in only a small handful of real hits (out of a million+ matches). This one, and regexadvice.com (which I found to be, lets say...
technically challenged with regard to its forum software). There is a private forum built into the excellent
RegexBuddy program (and I'm active in there), but I do like the expressive features of a modern public forum such as this one.
I've been a programmer since the '70s (FORTRAN written on punch cards) with an engineering degree in '81. Worked with non-destructive testing robotics and data acquisition systems in the aerospace industry for 11 years (FORTRAN, C and assembler on PDP-11s and PCs)then spent 5 years writing a real-time OS in assembly language and "C"). More recently, I've been learning web programming skills; XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL and apache configuration. I fell in love with regular expressions about three years ago after reading the classic "
Mastering Regular Expressions - 3rd edition" by Jeffrey Friedl. I really like PHP and its use of the powerful PCRE regex flavor, so I may just stick around here. You folks seem to be pretty well versed and civilized, with a pretty good S/N ratio.
Hi Everybody!

Jeff Roberson
p.s. I also fly
Hang Gliders!