Regular expressions might seem arcane, but if you do any kind of software, they are a powerful hacker tool. Obviously, if you are writing software or using tools like grep, awk, sed, Perl, or just ...

We aren’t sure how we feel about [pemistahl’s] grex program. On the one hand, we applaud a program that can take some input samples and produce a regular expression. On the other hand, it might be ...

I have to admit that I've never really understood regular expressions. But if there was any reason that I was going to learn to use them, it would be when doing searches in Visual Studio. For one ...

Since SharePoint 2010 now supports regular expressions for crawl rules, I wonder if these might be compacted into one rule. It's not a big deal to reenter these as-is, but I'd like to learn regular ...