Fast track your regular expressions with the help of possessive quantifiers, independent grouping, lookarounds, and the regex pattern-matching engine itself.

Regular expressions are a real lifesaver in such cases. You can use the parsing code (see Listing 1) for these purposes, provided that you use a different regular expression that accounts for ...

Regular expressions are like power tools: They may look scary, but are easy to use once you understand their basic building blocks.

I’ve created the RegexDemo application to demonstrate Java’s regular expressions and the various methods located in the Pattern, Matcher, and PatternSyntaxException classes.

Regular expressions — the things you feed to programs like grep — are a bit like riding a bike. It seems impossible until you learn to do it, and then it’s easy. Part of their bad reputation ...

Find a Word Regular expressions may seem scary because they look like mysterious codes strung together. However, if you break regular expressions into pieces, they’re really not that complicated.

Mark Gibbs is very impressed with a service that generates code for regular expressions and he has found that Gmail now supports importing and exporting filters. His happiness knows no bounds.