Reg Ex - How to avoid headache

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Reg Ex - How to avoid headache

Written by Angie Radtke Friday, 21 November 2008 00:00

Saturday evening in Luzern, I was having a beer together with Sören Eberhard, developer of VirtueMart. I expressed my deep esteem for people who are able to cope with regular expressions.

Regular expressions provide a way to filter a myriad of different programming languages for strings that follow specific rules. Depending on which challenge you are facing, they can be bloody useful. For example, you can use them to eliminate grubby HTML code from a string quickly and efficiently. Their syntax is quite complex, so I always balked at the amount of work required to get familiar with them in the first place.

Now, an easy solution seems to be ahead at last. Sören pointed me to a regular expression generator that allows you to individually create your regexes by mouseclick. Great tool. I couldn't find out who is the genius behind it, but he has earned my deep respect anyway.

About the author Angie Radtke

With her communication office – Der Auftritt – (English: the scene) webdesigner Angie Radtke, designs and realizes targeted communication solutions for internet and print. She specialized in marketing oriented, barrier free Internet presence, on customer demand with the use of Open Source Content Management Systems Joomla!. She proves appealing designs, accessibility and the use of CMS can unite fluently.

Her emphasis is to develop designs for customers they can really identify with, for a wide range of branches. Angie Radtke does not only handle all technical issues, when needed she also develops Corporate Design for her customers or she implements the available CI in her work.

Her consultancy contains all technical, conceptional and operational ranges. For Angie this "Full service" is a prerequisite to accomplish the goal set: optimal combining Creativity and technical options for every requirement and to provide tailor-made solutions.

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There are 2 comments posted.

# 1 - Posted by: Joseph LeBlanc on 2008-11-21 15:28:54

I prefer this regex generator personally: http://regex.larsolavtorvik.com

Re: Flex based Regex tool

# 2 - Posted by: Max on 2008-11-22 23:20:59

I've played around w/ a Ryan Swanson's Regular Expression Explorer. Awesome tool, IMO.

http://bit.ly/17GHB

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