So I've been doing some research on regular expressions and how they can be of use in everyday simple programs/macro's and, maybe in the future, more advanced coding.
I can't believe I haven't cared about them before, so id like to learn all i can...

Does anyone have any good resources on the topic?
Or better yet,
Does anyone recommend any good literature i can purchase?

Ive only ever tought myself once on a visual basic similar language, which was nothing more than a glorified Batch File
and some Ultra-nerd Inifinity Engine for D&D early 90's games, which is visual basic like as well.
All I have so far to go on is www.regular-expressions.info

or if you care to add misc. discussion; Otherwise aiding my job, where searching an online inventory software suite(NetSuite) occurs daily, what other programs/languages do you know of that support regular expressions?

what exactly is your goal?

in general:
step 1: figure out what you're trying to parse/detect
step 2: figure out the regex to do it

i dont understand what exactly you're trying to learn.



any language that supports stacks will support regex.

it really irritates me that outlook doesn't let you use regex easily when creating filters, though.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Sep 8 2013 09:16pm

never heard of regex until now hahah