January 2005 - Posts

• The Regulator now hosted at Regex.osherove.com

  FYI: The Regulator will be hosted from now on at http://regex.osherove.com/ No longer will the fact that my home machine is down mean that The Regulator's site will be offline. Phew. And for the record, I'm working on a new version. Share this post: email Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 11, 2005 3:29 AM by royo | 0 Comments Filed under: Regex

• Q&A - Greedy matching in regular expressions

  This came in the mail, thought other folks might be interested. Hi Roy. I need to check a line of html and make the value of the style attribute lowercase. I've tried to come up with a regex that will work but I keep making the entire line of html lowercase Read More... Posted Monday, January 10, 2005 7:37 PM by royo | 0 Comments Filed under: Regex

• Full source for The Regulator released

  I finally got around to release the full source code for The Regulator . Up until now the source code was partial and included mostly just the plugins for it. Now you get to see what a sloppy coder I really was when I dreamed up this thing, and the stages Read More... Posted Saturday, January 08, 2005 1:56 AM by royo | 0 Comments Filed under: Regex, .Net Original

• Using Regex to return the first N words in a string

  Jeff Perrin needed a function to return the first N words in a string (to create a small summary or a snippet thingy). He did it using the manual and awkward method of parsing the string manually. That method is more error prone and usually makes for Read More... Posted Friday, January 07, 2005 4:51 AM by royo | 2 Comments Filed under: Regex, .Net Original, Tips & Tricks