Since JavaScript concatenates strings with the + operator, it would be nifty if it would also let you multiply strings using e.g. str * 10 (as can be done in Python, at least). Since you can't do that, and no native string multiplication method is provided, I recently explored a few ways to pull it [...]

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In the past, I've touched on using regexes to match nested constructs up to a predetermined depth, which is the best you can do unless you're using one of the three regex engines (Perl, PCRE, and .NET) which are currently able to handle true recursion. Well, recently I wanted to be able to support unlimited nesting [...]

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I've just updated my ColdFusion-inspired JavaScript Date Format script to version 1.0 1.1, and updated the documentation in the old post along with it. The new release includes "Z" (US timezone abbreviation) and "o" (UTC offset) flags as well as brevity enhancements from Scott Trenda, along with several other new features including a standalone dateFormat [...]

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RegexPal (easily the most del.icio.used regex tester ) is now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License GNU LGPL. There are certainly many more features that can be added to the app and things that can be improved, so if you are interested in helping out or creating your own version, you are welcome [...]

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When generating an HTML content teaser or summary, many people just strip all tags before grabbing the leftmost n characters. Recently on ColdFusion developer Ben Nadel's blog, he tackled the problem of closing XHTML tags in a truncated string using ColdFusion and it's underlying Java methods. After seeing this, I created a roughly equivalent JavaScript [...]

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