Chapter 9. Regular Expressions
âSome people, when confronted with a problem, think âI know, Iâll use regular expressions.â Now they have two problems.â
âJamie Zawinski
Programming tools and techniques survive and spread in a chaotic, evolutionary way. Itâs not always the pretty or brilliant ones that win but rather the ones that function well enough within the right nicheâfor example, by being integrated with another successful piece of technology.
In this chapter, I will discuss one such tool, regular expressions. Regular expressions are a way to describe patterns in string data. They form a small, separate language that is part of JavaScript and many other languages and tools.
Regular expressions are both terribly awkward and extremely ...
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