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Regular expression guru
Areas of Expertise:
- Regular expressions
- Delphi
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November 06 2009
A bug in recent versions of TPerlRegEx caused it to crash when reusing a TPerlRegEx instance with another regular expression because two pointers weren't set to nil after freeing them. read moreOctober 08 2009
Delphi 2010 fixes the bug that caused internal errors when linking in the PCRE OBJ files if TPerlRegEx is installed into a design time package. The latest TPerlRegEx uses the OBJ files by default for Delphi 2010, and the DLL for earlier versions. read moreRegular Expressions Cookbook on Safari Books Online
August 18 2009
Regular Expressions Cookbook is can be read online if you have a Safari Books Online subscription. read moreKindle Edition of Regular Expressions Cookbook
August 17 2009
Amazon.com now sells a Kindle edition of Regular Expressions Cookbook, which you can read on your Kindle, iPhone, or iPod Touch. read moreUpdated PCRE DLL for TPerlRegEx
August 12 2009
TPerlRegEx was updated to fix a crash bug when freeing the component when compiling it with the DLL. read moreMagically Generating Regular Expressions
July 27 2009
Automatically generating a regular expression without a higher-level description of the text you want to match isn't really practical. But there has to be a way to create text patterns using a higher-level tool than the character-by-character regular expression syntax. Two years in the making, this blog post announce's Just… read more#1 In Computer Books on Amazon.com
June 10 2009
When I write this, Regular Expressions Cookbook is at the top spot in Amazon.com's computers & internet bestsellers. read moreRegular Expressions Cookbook in PDF Format
May 29 2009
You can purchase Regular Expressions Cookbook as a PDF download from O'Reilly's website. read moreMay 28 2009
The animal on the cover of Regular Expressions Cookbook is actually a musk shrew. read moreRegular Expressions Cookbook Has Been Published
May 27 2009
Regular Expressions Cookbook is now shipping. I dare say that Regular Expression Cookbook is the most practical book on regular expressions to date, filled with lots of detailed information about flavor-specific and language-specific features or issues glossed over by many other books and online articles. read moreSplit() is Not Always The Best Way to Split a String
April 27 2009
The split() function makes it easy to split a string when you can use a simple regex to match the delimiters on which you want to split. Often it is much easier to write a regex that matches the content between the delimiters that you want to keep. In such… read moreRegular Expressions Ratatouille
March 12 2009
The rat on the cover of Regular Expressions Cookbook reminds me of the rat in the Pixar animated movie "Ratatouille". read moreFrom Regex Newbie to Regex Guru
February 02 2009
How I went from my first real encounter with regular expressions in 2000, to the expert I am almost a decade later. read moreRegular Expression Cookbook Available for Pre-Order
January 28 2009
The book that Jan has been writing is now available for pre-order. It is scheduled for 15 May 2009. read moreDon’t Escape Literal Characters That Aren’t Metacharacters
December 19 2008
Perl-style regular expressions treat 12 punctuation characters as metacharacters outside character classes. These characters need to be escaped with a backslash if you want to include them as literal characters in your regex: .^$|*+?()[{\ Inside character classes, these flavors treat a different set of 4 punctuation characters as metacharacters. Only those 4… read more
