Regular Expressions: New FAQ

[Jeff Epstein]

I've composed the beginnings of a FAQ, regarding Regular Expressions and TextPad.

http://equity.wharton.upenn.edu/~epstei ... n_faq.html

This document contains a bunch of examples that I've observed and paraphrased from posts in the forum. Regular Expressions are pretty intimidating for newbies, and I hope this FAQ will (eventually) smooth out the learning curve.

Please let me know if you find this document helpful. I would love advice and tips on improving it. Feel free to contribute URLs/essays/opinions related to regular expressions and TextPad (tips, fun facts, syntax, theory, background, ...). In particular, an opinion comparing the advantages and disadvantages of POSIX and non-POSIX would be interesting.

If there are additional RE examples that you would like added to the FAQ, just post them to the forum.

Thanks!

[Roy Beatty]

Jeff,

Jeffrey Friedl, author of the wonderful book, Mastering Regular Expressions (O'Reilly, 1997) maintains a page of useful links:

http://public.yahoo.com/~jfriedl/regex/links.html

The TextPad 3.x help file had a url I'd used to learn regex. I do not have that help file any more, but the url may have been one of these:

Tutorials
http://www.netcat.co.uk/rob/perl/win32p ... xpressions
http://www.english.uga.edu/humcomp/perl/regex2a.html
http://www.rutgers.edu/~sgro/perltutor/regexp.html
http://www.english.uga.edu/humcomp/perl/regexps.html

Reference
http://sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov/info/regex/Top.html
http://www.english.uga.edu/humcomp/perl ... sions.HTML

Feel free to post them on your page.

Warm regards,

Roy Beatty
rrbeatty@hotmail.com

[Jeff Epstein]

Roy,

Thanks so much for the links. I've actually added your letter, verbatim, to the FAQ. The links are clickable.

http://www.jeffyjeffy.com/textpad/docum ... n_faq.html