June 2004 - Posts

• Historical Dates vs Calculated Dates

  This hasn't come up (yet) but I thought about it today so I'll talk about it now. My latest date regexps validate all Anno Domini (A.D.) dates. I want to point out that the dates in the past being validated are historical dates using both the Julian and Read More... Posted Thursday, June 24, 2004 1:15 AM by mash | 0 Comments Filed under: Dates

• Just a dash?

  Now I've seen plenty of tutorials and documentation mentioning some of the special characters inside a character class. The hat (^) symbol means negate the following characters if it is the first character in the class. Ex. [^ABC] means not A or B or Read More... Posted Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:37 PM by mash | 4 Comments Filed under: Bugs/Quirks

• Javascript Datetime regexps

  Well I'm at it again. I knocked out more regexps to handle dates. Why? Why not? Actually these are javascript compatible versions of my latest A.D calendar datetime regexps. I've seen a lot of comments on the regexlib complaining about expressions not Read More... Posted Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:33 PM by mash | 6 Comments Filed under: Dates

• da Plane, da Plane

  Be careful when dealing with Unicode. Unicode is the latest attempt to account for different characters of different languages. To quote the Unicode website “ Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 08, 2004 11:04 AM by mash | 3 Comments

• International number and currency format

  International currency formats A recent post to the Regexlib reminded me that numbers are formatted differently in other countries. For Example : 345 987,246 fr_FR 345.987,246 de_DE 345,987.246 en_US With that thought I modify one of my currency regex’s Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 08, 2004 10:55 AM by mash | 2 Comments