August 2004 - Posts

• Case and Class Ranges

  A very common character class pattern you will come across in the world of regular expressions is [a-zA-Z] which is just matching the letters of the English alphabet in upper and lower case. Here’s a tip if you are going to use a range in a character Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:47 AM by mash | 0 Comments Filed under: Bugs/Quirks

• One Regex to rule them all?

  I don't think so. Regular expressions have many uses. However finding one regex the is good for every possible scenario for the type of data the regex is matching is daunting. Recently Justin Rogers used one of my creations ,my datetime regex, as a negative Read More... Posted Saturday, August 14, 2004 12:09 AM by mash | 9 Comments Filed under: Dates

• Look out for Javascript

  JavaScript is fast becoming the bane of my existence, at least as far as regexes go. I recently blogged about how JavaScript behaves differently on the same valid pattern than .Net . I found another case of this. I’ve also blogged about testing Read More... Posted Thursday, August 05, 2004 12:21 PM by mash | 0 Comments Filed under: Dates, Bugs/Quirks