December 2003 - Posts

• The composition of text

  Let's traverse some levels... I'd guess that most people are capable of producing text I'd guess that many people are capable of writing a regex to find something in that text I'd guess that a few people are capable of writing a regex parser to match Read More... Posted Friday, December 19, 2003 7:26 AM by digory | 1 Comments Filed under: NYN

• RegexLib.com - new ratings system

  I changed the RegexLib.com rating system this weekend. Previously, the rating system allowed you to give a "score" between -2 and +2 for a regex. The scores were cumulative so, if a regex received 5 ratings of +2 its rating would have been +10. The rating Read More... Posted Sunday, December 14, 2003 7:13 PM by digory | 0 Comments Filed under: Tools and Sites, RegexLib

• More about validating ISBN's

  While this site was down over the weekend I received several e-mail's from people who had tried to leave comments - thanks :-) One of the important one's that I received was from Luke who was commenting about my entry on validating ISBN's . Here's an Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2003 8:34 PM by digory | 1 Comments Filed under: Samples

• RegexLib.com progress...

  Well, it's only taken me 8 months but I finally managed to upload a new build of the RegexLib.com site :-) so, the codebase is now .NET Framework 1.1 - FINALLY! This should enable me to make updates to the site on a much more regular basis and, I've got Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2003 8:10 PM by digory | 7 Comments Filed under: Tools and Sites, RegexLib

• Top Authors

  I found this listing of "most popular authors" on some site called Diaryland a couple of days ago... Stephen King Anne Rice J.k. Rowling J.r.r. Tolkien Sylvia Plath Jk Rowling Edgar Allen Poe Shakespeare Kurt Vonnegut J.d. Salinger Dean Koontz Douglas Read More... Posted Saturday, December 06, 2003 5:42 AM by digory | 1 Comments Filed under: Books

• How to validate an ISBN Number

  There was an interesting discussion recently on the regex list regarding the validation of ISBN's. ISBN's are described on the ISBN site as: The International Standard Book Number is known throughout the world as a short, clear and potentially machine-readable Read More... Posted Saturday, December 06, 2003 5:30 AM by digory | 3 Comments Filed under: Samples

• New article - Reg Explanations

  I week or so ago I pointed Mark towards an article which explains "How Regexes Work" and, being the prolific guy that he is he's already consumed and digested it. The result is a lovely piece of text which relates regex and finite state automata and Mark's Read More... Posted Thursday, December 04, 2003 4:32 AM by digory | 0 Comments Filed under: Articles

• Stuck : The battle between gaining insight and a clouded mind

  Lately I've been trying to build a clearer picture of the lower level building blocks of regex; that is mostly: 'backreferences' and 'backtracking'. I'm also keen to drop down a level of abstraction with regard to how I view finite state machines and Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2003 9:13 PM by digory | 0 Comments Filed under: Books, NYN