In this post, I hope to cover some of the more intriguing regular expression design patterns that ES205+ opens up, along with a few that are coming to a Javascript environment near you in the near ...

A full-blown programming language like Java or Python can do many things, but regex does one thing only: match text against patterns. An individual regular expression is expressed as a string of ...

To do so, I’ve long employed John Gruber’s liberal, accurate regex pattern for matching URLs, which has reliably allowed me to confirm that a workflow is about to handle a proper URL rather than a ...

Regular expressions -- often called regex -- are sequences of characters that define a search pattern in text. That makes them sound like a one-trick pony, but you'd be surprised at how useful ...