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Regular Expression Presentation |
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Written by Alex
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Tuesday, 28 March 2006 |
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I gave a presentation at the last Arizona PHP Users Group meeting about using regular expressions in PHP. I covered the basic constructs and some strategies for designing decent expressions. Regexps seem to intimidate a lot of people, but I think this is really unnecessary. Just because some people write awful and incomprehensible expressions doesn't mean the entire subject deserves a bad rap. You can do things with regexps you can't do any other way, and when you get the basics down, they really aren't hard at all.
You can download a PDF version of my talk notes if you want to see more. There are links to more resources in the last few slides. The talk is focused on using regular expressions in PHP, but 90% of what I mention will be applicable to other languages and tools. Enjoy.
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