http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/regex-humor A JavaScript and regular expression centric blog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:20:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/regex-humor/comment-page-1#comment-35931 Steven Levithan Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:45:46 +0000 http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/regular-expressions/regex-humor/#comment-35931 This this has been getting a fair amount of StumbleUpon traffic recently for some reason, so I'll note that for the sake of deriving some kind of meaning, I suggest you read the regex pattern as "If match 'you', match '[heart] regular expressions', then place 'you' and 'regular expressions' in an atomic group; otherwise end the match". It would match a string like "You♥RegexYouRegex". This this has been getting a fair amount of StumbleUpon traffic recently for some reason, so I’ll note that for the sake of deriving some kind of meaning, I suggest you read the regex pattern as “If match ‘you’, match ‘[heart] regular expressions’, then place ‘you’ and ‘regular expressions’ in an atomic group; otherwise end the match”. It would match a string like “You♥RegexYouRegex”.

]]> http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/regex-humor/comment-page-1#comment-8943 Steve Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:08:55 +0000 http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/regular-expressions/regex-humor/#comment-8943 @Lizzy: I've never touched Perl. However, I am quite familiar with its regex flavor. @Lizzy: I’ve never touched Perl. However, I am quite familiar with its regex flavor.

]]> http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/regex-humor/comment-page-1#comment-8394 Lizzy Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:37:06 +0000 http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/regular-expressions/regex-humor/#comment-8394 1. My love of regex is not abnormal compared to you! 2. You love regex yet are not mainly a Perl coder?? 3. The existence of regex in javascript = lol 1. My love of regex is not abnormal compared to you!
2. You love regex yet are not mainly a Perl coder??
3. The existence of regex in javascript = lol

]]> http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/regex-humor/comment-page-1#comment-6302 Steve Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:50:16 +0000 http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/regular-expressions/regex-humor/#comment-6302 The Anglo-Saxon, abbreviated, plural form. :-) I didn't invent it. The Anglo-Saxon, abbreviated, plural form. I didn’t invent it.

]]> http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/regex-humor/comment-page-1#comment-6289 Jonathan Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:58:34 +0000 http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/regular-expressions/regex-humor/#comment-6289 "regular expressions", "regular expression", "regex", "regexp", "regexes", ok, but what's "regexen"? “regular expressions”, “regular expression”, “regex”, “regexp”, “regexes”, ok, but what’s “regexen”?

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