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 ...

Regular expressions have been part of the programmer’s toolkit for a long time, with their creation by Stephen Cole King in 1951. Their ability to match word patterns make them a powerful tool for ...

This project contains two programs, one in JavaScript and one in PHP, that remove comments from a C program using regular expressions. The programs also identify and report invalid comments. "cycle.c" ...

Regular expressions are a powerful tool for working with text data in JavaScript. They allow you to search, manipulate and extract specific parts of a string with precision. Although regular ...

I first heard about regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerabilities from GitHub's Dependabot. Several of my projects over the years have had dependencies that suffered from ReDoS ...

A simple npm package that checks the password strength of a certain passphrase. A password strength checker based from Javascript RegEx. This repository contains regular expression (regex) patterns ...

Abstract: Regular expressions are notoriously difficult to get right, with developers often having to resort to trial-and-error approaches. Even so, little attention ...