Comments on: Regex Day Contest

By: Teknowledgist

Teknowledgist — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:09:43 +0000

There is another RegEx reference mug with more color and larger text here:

http://www.zazzle.com/regular_expressions_quick_reference_mug-168607272387736153

To bad it missed the entry deadline.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:41:41 +0000

I’m cought with a delema. I need to preload an HTML page before any of it displays. Preferably, I’d like to take users to a splash screen, that completely loads the images and text on the following page. But here’s where it gets tricky- the website contains some flash elements as well, which have thier own preloaders. So I don’t want the flash elements to be preloaded, only images and text; so that when the users arive at the page, all the images appear in sync and the flash preloaders get to do their job.

Does anyone know of a way to do this?

By: pavan

pavan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:43:26 +0000

hi Steve,

am new to regex expressions..i am trying to validate this type of string,

Hi, [[USER_NAME]]
You are from [[USER_PLACE]].

Now this is a valid string, but if it contains incomplete markers like [[USER_NAME] or [USER_PLACE]] . how do catch these?
how do i validate for this..can u suggest something?

By: Ben Nadel

Ben Nadel — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:38:58 +0000

@Steve,

AWESOME! I have been down at CFUNITED (ColdFusion conference) all week and *just* got this email. This is way exciting Thanks a lot.

By: Steven Levithan

Steven Levithan — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:26:24 +0000

Thanks everyone for participating and creating great, new regex material! Here are the qualifying entries: – Patrick McElhaney put U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (an appropriate song, indeed) to regular expression. – Micahel wrote a regular expression haiku. – Jeff Hillman wrote up an article about using his Find and Replace Add-In for Visual Studio 2005. – Ben Nadel posted hundreds of lines of ColdFusion code for a SAX-style XML parser that uses regular expressions to help tokenize the document. It does this using a Java FileInputStream since ColdFusion doesn't natively support streaming data access. – Cory Hudson posted a segment of very clever Sudoku game code in JavaScript. It uses regular expressions to help determine what numbers can appear at a position on a partially-completed Sudoku board. – Scott described the makings of a regex superhero, and showed that he knows his way around the regular expression flavor landscape. Thanks also to those who mentioned excellent regex content created before this contest started: – Moritz Lenz highlighted a very interesting article he wrote on mutable grammars for Perl 6. – Paul Irish pointed to RegExr, an ActionScript-based regex tester. – Jeff Hillman previously wrote an article on PowerShell syntax highlighting with HTML, complete with full source code. Finally, Can Sinan Artuc wrote up a regular expression article on his Turkish blog. I wouldn't be able to properly evaluate this anyway, but since the pingpack didn't include an email address, it was not a qualifying entry. And the winners are: 1. Ben Nadel 2. Scott 3. Jeff Hillman I'll contact you guys within the next few days for your preferred schwag and the addresses to send them to. Feel free to go ahead and send me this info in the mean time (steves_list {at} hotmail {dot-com}). Thanks again to everyone who participated!