The first time I ever encountered a regular expression was many years ago now, but I still remember my first thoughts on it: What is this string-like thing? I don’t want to touch it, it looks scary. I ...

brackets in regular expression If you don't use square brackets, the meaning of the code changes. For example, without the square brackets, the code /\d./ will match any character that is followed by ...

Regular expressions have been part of the programmer’s toolkit for a long time, with their creation by Stephen Cole King in 1951. Their ability to match word patterns make them a powerful tool for ...

Description This library is a modified version of Raphael Graf’s ActionScript Expression Parser. When I wrote the JavaScript Function Plotter, I wanted a better alternative to using JavaScript’s eval ...

I first heard about regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerabilities from GitHub's Dependabot. Several of my projects over the years have had dependencies that suffered from ReDoS ...

Svend, thanks for the response.<BR><BR>The test character I'm using is an n with a tilde above it. I don't remember the exact unicode value for it, but it should fall within the range I include in the ...