Padraic Brady's Blog: PCRE Regex Word Matching: "w" vs "a-zA-Z0-9_"
Padraic Brady has posted about an issue he noticed when working with regular expressions and the "word" character type to find something that's alpha-numeric (including an underscore): You can find...
View ArticleNETTUTS.com: Advanced Regular Expression Tips and Techniques
NETTUTS.com has posted an advanced guide to regular expressions that just happens to use the PHP PCRE functions to do the matching. Regular Expressions are the Swiss Army knife for searching through...
View ArticleStoimen Popov's Blog: preg_match Give Names to the Matches
In a quick post to hos blog today Stoimen Popov points out a handy feature of the preg_match function in PHP (in PHP 5.2.2 and higher) to be able to name the results of the regular expression match....
View ArticlePHPBuilder.com: 10 Easy Examples for Deciphering PHP Regular Expressions
On PHPBuilder.com today Jason Gilmore has posted ten easy regular expression tips that can help you understand the matching on some of the common pieces of data your app might come across. Regular...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: How to Tidy Your WordPress Menu HTML
On the SitePoint PHP blog today there's a new post from Craig Buckler for the WordPress users out there. The HTML that this popular blog/CMS tools spits out can sometimes be not-so-semantic. Craig...
View ArticlePHPCodeBase.com: PHP Magic Function : glob()
On PHPCodeBase.com there's a recent post looking at a handy file system function that you can use to search directories simpler than a usual opendir/readdir method - glob. Are you guys still using...
View ArticleMichael Nitschinger's Blog: Writing a simple lexer in PHP
In this new post to his blog Michael Nitschinger shows you how to create a simple lexer to parse incoming content (like custom configuration files or anything that uses its own domain-specific...
View ArticleRefulz.com: Special characters in Regular Expressions - Part 1
On the Refulz.com site they've posted the first part of a series about the basics of using special characters regular expressions (both in PHP and outside of it). With this post, we continue to...
View ArticleSameer Borate: Constructing hard regular expressions with VerbalExpressions
Sameer Borate has an post to his site sharing a library that could help you in creating more complex regular expressions a bit more simply. He introduces the VerbalExpressions library and an example...
View ArticleNikita Popov: Fast request routing using regular expressions
In his latest post Nikita Popov talks about routing and regular expresions. He also shares some work he's done to create a fast request router using them in "userland" code instead of a C extension....
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