I have to admit that I've never really understood regular expressions. But if there was any reason that I was going to learn to use them, it would be when doing searches in Visual Studio. For one ...

Custom segments are powerful tools used for a variety of reporting. Combined with regular expressions, segments can be customized to track a variety of searches, or return certain pages based on URL ...

Regular expressions are a powerful tool for manipulating textual information, allowing you to perform the sophisticated processing you describe. Before I explain the solution, let's back up one step ...

This article explains what regex (or regular expressions) is and how to get started using it with web crawlers, plus some interesting real-world use cases. One technology skill that is too-often ...

Google Search Console is an amazing tool that provides invaluable search data by real users directly from Google. While the charts and tables are friendly to work with, a large part of the data is not ...

Whether you are parsing logs or validating input, using regular expressions is a great way to accomplish both of these things. The problem is: regular expressions can be hard and that will only grow ...

If you consider yourself a good cook, you may or may not know how to make a souffle or baklava. But there are certain things you probably do know how to do that form the basis of many recipes. For ...

From validating IP addresses to phone numbers, these are some of the handiest expressions in Boe's PowerShell toolbox. What are yours? As this article states, I want to show some of the regular ...

If you’ve struggled with regular expressions that took hours to match when you needed them to complete in seconds, this article is for you. Java developer Cristian Mocanu explains where and why the ...

Regular expressions — the things you feed to programs like grep — are a bit like riding a bike. It seems impossible until you learn to do it, and then it’s easy. Part of their bad reputation is ...