February 2004 - Posts

• FindStr.exe - an egrep-like tool

  I've long thought of writing a little tool like grep (or egrep) which would allow me to quickly use regex to search for text within files. This weekend while reading an article about Standard I/O and Console Applications I discovered the Windows command-line Read More... Posted Sunday, February 29, 2004 5:47 PM by digory | 1 Comments Filed under: Tools and Sites

• RegexLib.com : Major Testing Tool improvements... coming soon

  This is a very exciting day for me. Ever since I first got into using regular expressions I've never found a tool for testing regex which compares to Moshe Solomon's excellent client-side Regular Expression Lab: http://www.geocities.com/udeleng/regex.htm Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2004 7:54 AM by digory | 0 Comments Filed under: RegexLib

• Using alternation to match when you have more than one sub-expression

  Allrighty, because this is a regex blog and, because I get so many requests for regex help via my feedback form, I've decided that I'm going to answer all requests for help with a specific blog entry so that it will be held for posterity and so that I'll Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2004 8:08 PM by digory | 8 Comments Filed under: Cries for help

• MatchSparse? An implementation detail.

  I haven't checked this for myself yet but, tonight I noticed that Justin Rogers has posted an interesting entry relating to an implementation detail of .NET Regex matching: http://weblogs.asp.net/justin_rogers/archive/2004/02/13/72800.aspx I'm not really Read More... Posted Sunday, February 15, 2004 5:49 PM by digory | 0 Comments Filed under: Blogs

• Html Agility Pack

  I noticed a link to the "HTML Agility Pack" on Duncan's blog today which reminded me of the recent "challenge" to strip scripts from withing Html documents: Refer: http://regexadvice.com/blogs/DNeimke/archive/2004/01/17/336.aspx http://regexadvice.com/blogs/DNeimke/archive/2004/01/17/346.aspx Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 5:29 AM by digory | 4 Comments Filed under: Tools and Sites

• Some new styles for my code samples

  Today I've altered my Css styles the PRE elements that are used to display code snippets on both my regex blog and my asp blog. The new style definition is: PRE.CodeSnippet { background-color: #f0f0f0; padding : 1em; margin : 0px 2em; padding : 1em; border Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:20 PM by digory | 8 Comments Filed under: Blogs

• RegexCoach - new mailing list.

  Today I received an e-mail from Ed Weitz letting me know that he's created a list to discuss my favourite regular expression “diagnostic tool” - RegexCoach. Here's the blurb: There's now a mailing list for "The Regex Coach " which will be Read More... Posted Sunday, February 01, 2004 1:07 PM by digory | 0 Comments Filed under: Tools and Sites