If you’ve ever done any serious programming you’ll have run into something called regular expressions: … (abbreviated regex or regexp and sometimes called a rational expression) is a sequence of ...

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 ...

We aren’t sure how we feel about [pemistahl’s] grex program. On the one hand, we applaud a program that can take some input samples and produce a regular expression. On the other hand, it might be ...

Searching your file system can be tricky. For example, do you sometimes find it difficult to be specific or exact? Or perhaps it's too noisy? Regex can solve these issues and more. It's powerful, ...

[Nicholas Carlini] found some extra time on his hands over the holiday, so he decide to do something with “entirely no purpose.” The result: 84,688 regular expressions that can play chess using a ...