February 2007 - Posts

.*? The reason to any slow regex!
24 February 07 05:10 PM | sirpadk | 76 Comments   
Hi guys, We all have been there, we have some text we need to allocate using a regex, and we cannot really define what can be between 2 sub matches, so we simply uses the easiest solution .*? . You will probebly wont notice the problem, until the day Read More...
Guys you are misusing the blog as forum! please stop!
02 February 07 08:19 PM | sirpadk | 66 Comments   
Hi there, In the past months there is a new trend in the regexadvice.com community site. Users are posting a blog post with simple trivial questions which should be posted at the discussions forums. As far as I understand, writing a blog about a specific Read More...
Protecting your regex from future changes in the source code
02 February 07 07:39 PM | sirpadk | 106 Comments   
Hi guys, Long time since I've written here, well let's just say it's been busy at work and home front! Today I had to fix a web crawler due a regex that failed to track a tax amount. The regex was not written by me, but it reminded me what Read More...
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