I love Regular Expressions

[ast3r3x]

I just wanted to come right out and say I love regular expressions. I've been using them and getting better at them for the past couple months, and they are just ungodly useful. <- Not sure what ungodly useful means, but it is a good thing.

Beyond being a miracle for validation, it makes massive changes to hundreds of files that would be tedious and time consuming, able to be done in less than 30 seconds. Hats off my friends to this amazing tool.

If you don't know them, learn them!

[Majost]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/regular_expressions.png

Rollover text: "Wait, forgot to escape a space. Wheeeeee[taptaptap]eeeeeee."

:)

[spotcatbug]

I love the little, "PERL!" sound effect thingy in that xkcd.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. --Jamie Zawinski

[autodata]

Mark me down as another big regular expression fan. I can't really put my finger on what's so appealing about them, but they really are like a little world of their own.