When working with regular expressions in a shell script the norm is to use grep or sed or some other external command/program. Since version 3 of bash (released in 2004) there is another option: ...

Bash has quietly made scripting on Unix systems a lot easier with its own regular expressions. If you're still leaning on grep and sed commands to get your scripts to do what you need from them ...

The problem is: regular expressions can be hard and that will only grow as more complex regular expressions are needed for various things that you need to accomplish. There is also a reason why using ...

Perl was once the frontrunner in scripting languages, known as the "duct tape of the Internet". Perl excels in text manipulation and system administration tasks. Key Features. Regular expressions: ...

As this article states, I want to show some of the regular expressions that I use during my day-to-day activities. But this isn't just about me and what I use them for. I would love to see what you in ...

Not surprisingly, genetic programming has been used to “evolve” complex regular expressions from data and the Web site Regex Generator++ demonstrates the technique.