Working with regular expressions I’m also going to cover how to work with regular expressions in JavaScript, though the concepts learned here apply to other languages as well.

This article explains what regex (or regular expressions) is and how to get started using it with web crawlers, plus some interesting real-world use cases.

Software engineer Hillel Wayne posted on his blog about the history of why the symbols ``^'' and ``$'' were used as symbols to indicate the beginning and end of a line in regular expressions. Why ...