I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...

How do you find out if a user has entered a valid email address? Do you check for an at-sign, or is it more complicated? For many developers the answer is a regular expression, a little bit of code ...

Regular expressions come in handy for all varieties of text processing, but are often misunderstood--even by veteran developers. Here's a look at intermediate-level regular expressions and what they ...

If you’ve struggled with regular expressions that took hours to match when you needed them to complete in seconds, this article is for you. Java developer Cristian Mocanu explains where and why the ...

Tony Northrup is a developer, security consultant and author with more than 10 years of professional experience developing applications for Microsoft Windows. Developers frequently need to process ...

If you’ve programmed in Perl or any other language with built-in regular-expression capabilities, then you probably know how much easier regular expressions make text processing and pattern matching.

XML has become the standard technology in information exchange, but many applications still use more primitive ways to import and export data. One such technique is based on text files containing ...

You can do a lot more with regular expressions than you think. In this tutorial, you'll use it to convert a movie list into a CSV file for use in Excel. In Part 1 and Part 2 in this series about ...

If you consider yourself a good cook, you may or may not know how to make a souffle or baklava. But there are certain things you probably do know how to do that form the basis of many recipes. For ...