A quick run down on how you can use regular expressions in your own programs to give you more power over searching and substituting text. Perl has long been an extremely popular choice for text ...

I'm confused by Perl's regex abilities. There seems to be a lot of duplicate flags: ^ and \A both match the beginning of a string. $ and \Z both match the end. It seems redundant and confusing. I'm ...

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.

Hi All I have a question concerning Perl's regular expression syntax:<BR><BR>I want to write a regular expression for a string like this<BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode ...

Regular expressions might seem arcane, but if you do any kind of software, they are a powerful hacker tool. Obviously, if you are writing software or using tools like grep, awk, sed, Perl, or just ...