Mark Gibbs is very impressed with a service that generates code for regular expressions and he has found that Gmail now supports importing and exporting filters. His happiness knows no bounds. Before ...

I need a streamlined way of handling both messy user input and a messy postal code column in a table of product dealers.<BR><BR>For example, the dealer table has a column of US ZIP codes in any of the ...

Software engineer Hillel Wayne posted on his blog about the history of why the symbols ``^'' and ``$'' were used as symbols to indicate the beginning and end of a line in regular expressions. Why do ...