Update: This version of XRegExp is outdated. See XRegExp 0.5 for the latest, greatest version. JavaScript's regular expression flavor doesn't support named capture. Well, says who? XRegExp 0.2 brings named capture support, along with several other new features. But first of all, if you haven't seen the previous version, make sure to check out my post [...]

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I've just updated parseUri. If you haven't seen the older version, parseUri is a function which splits any well-formed URI into its parts, all of which are optional. Its combination of accuracy, flexibility, and brevity is unrivaled. Highlights: Comprehensively splits URIs, including splitting the query string into key/value pairs. (Enhanced) Two parsing modes: loose and strict. (New) Easy to [...]

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Update: The documentation below has been updated for the new Date Format 1.2. Get it now! Although JavaScript provides a bunch of methods for getting and setting parts of a date object, it lacks a simple way to format dates and times according to a user-specified mask. There are a few scripts out there which provide [...]

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Update: This version of XRegExp is outdated. See XRegExp 0.5 for the latest, greatest version. I use regular expressions in JavaScript fairly frequently, and although the exec() method is badass and I love the ability to use a function to generate the replacement in the replace() method, JavaScript regexes lack some very significant features available in [...]

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Update: The following post is outdated. See parseUri 1.2 for the latest, greatest version. For fun, I spent the 10 minutes needed to convert my parseUri() ColdFusion UDF into a JavaScript function. For those who haven't already seen it, I'll repeat my explanation from the other post… parseUri() splits any well-formed URI into its parts (all are optional). [...]

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