Do you get Regular Expressions?

If not, maybe you should spend a little time reading “The absolute bare minimum every programmer should know about regular expressions” from Mike.

Mike lays out a really nice introduction to regular expressions. Most of the constructs explained are supported in Programmer’s Notepad, a few are not currently supported. In the future I hope to eventually migrate to PCRE for the expressions. This will provide full Perl Compatible regular expressions.

I regularly use Regular Expressions in my daily programming and text editing work – if you’ve not yet grown to love them then spend some time trying them out for common editing tasks – you’ll know when you “get it”.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 at 9:38 pm and is filed under Programmer's Notepad, Software. You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One comment

  1. Sebastian Pipping
    July 23, 2007 at 2:35 am

    Hello Simon!

    If I remember correctly PN2 already depends on Boost.
    Why don’t you give Boost.Regex a try instead of PCRE?
    Boost.Regex also powers EmEditor. Also please don’t
    forget to enable multi-line searching with patterns
    like “(.+)\n(.+)”. Very few editors support this
    although it is needed for basic things like removing
    empty lines.

    Sebastian