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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
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 Posted - 27 June 2005 : 22:10:30
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Does anyone know of a good place to learn about RegEx? I've found a few tutorials online, but they are language specific. I guess my first question is: are regular expressions the same for all languages? For example, if I have a RegEx string in VB, will it work the same in Perl or PHP? I know the implementation uses different sytax, but the strings themselves should be the same, right?
I think that's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'm just starting to get into RegEx, and I'd like to start using them more in sites and webapps that I develop. Thanks. |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 28 June 2005 : 05:09:48
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RegEx itself is independent of language *but* different engines implement different parts of it. There are not many decent tutorials out there - so many of them I found were really rather basic, then missed the useful bit and went straight to confusing.
One of the best RegEx lists I ever found was a single page on MSDN and then I spent a long time practicing and playing (forgotten most of it now, though, but I was really blown away with how powerful and versatile they were). Unless anyone knows better, playing is really where it's at to get to grips with it! |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
6780 Posts |
Posted - 28 June 2005 : 07:02:11
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Podge provided me with a couple of good links when I was trying to make a start with RegExs which you can find here.
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 28 June 2005 : 09:22:21
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| Thanks Shaggy. It looks like that'll help quite a bit. |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
6780 Posts |
Posted - 28 June 2005 : 09:58:43
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You're welcome, Bill 
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