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Stop Avoiding Regular Expressions Damn It

If you develop in Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Javascript (or pretty much any other language with its roots in Unix) and don’t know regular expressions, you are missing a critical piece. And if you’re intentionally avoiding regular expressions, it’s like you’ve torn pages out of YOUR manual, but everyone else’s manual is complete.

Tags: best practices • Javascript • PHP • programming • web-development

May 12th, 2013 14 Comments

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