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More Fun with Regular Expressions : Word and Paragraph Parsing
Trolling the ASP.NET forums again this morning, I know I do it a lot, I found a question trying to parse the paragraphs out of a series of text. So I knew I had to answer it. The regular expression needed is '(.+)'. This tells the Regular Expression object Read More...
Parsing Capital Letters
I found an intersting question on the ASP.NET forums this morning. How can you get a count of the capital letters in a string? My first thought was, 'This is a Job for Regex!'. If you are not familiar with regular expressions, please get to know Read More...
Regular Expression Visualizer - A Must Have Tool
This week I saw a twitter from Roy Osherove about a new Regular Expression Visualizer he built. If you do not know Roy yet, he is a very smart .NET developer for TypeMock and has done some great work with regular expression tools, such as Regulazy and Read More...
How to Replace Ambiguous Values
Recently I had a friend tell me they were working on a project where they had to hand scrub the data in their database. In particular that day they were manually scrubbing values like 'Not Applicable', 'NA' and 'N/A' which all meant the same thing. But Read More...
Common Regular Expressions
I came across a good blog entry with a list of commonly used regular expressions . Through it would be useful to reference. Read More...
Extracting Content with a regular Expression
Regular Expressions are not a very easy skill for any developer to master, that is why so few actually leverage this amazing feature of the .NET framework. I have been working on a little application this week that needed to extract a specific peice of Read More...