Notice that regular expressions are case-sensitive, even in Visual Basic. Often, capitalized characters have the opposite meaning of lowercase characters. The simplest use of regular expressions is to ...

These are the formal rules for forming basic UNIX regular expressions. For some simple examples, skip to Simple Examples. The rules come from the Solaris 7 regexp(5) manual page. The I2A2 reflector ...

Vincent Danen goes over some basic regular expressions. They are handy for developers and programmers, of course, and can even be employed for Google searching.

Regular expressions (both basic and extended), in fact, are said to be greedy—they try to match as many characters as possible. The result of the script is written to standard output and can be ...

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