Understanding Regular Expressions
        
        
        
        
        
            Description: Regular expressions seem to be some kind of dark magic for many developers. Although easy to understand, they consist of strange characters like brackets, dots, …
        
        
        
        
            Keywords: regular expressions, pcre, backtracking, atomic groups, quanitifier, greedy, modifier, character class, patter, sub pattern, grouping, assertions, anchors, presentation, Confoo.ca
        
        
    
    
        Understanding Regular Expressions
Regular expressions seem to be some kind of dark magic for many developers. Although easy to understand, they consist of strange characters like brackets, dots, asterisks and questions marks. However, as soon as you have understood what is going on behind the curtain, you do not want to miss regular expressions in many areas.