Flagrant Badassery

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All Posts Tagged With: "xregexp"

Gauging Interest in Enhanced JavaScript Regex Methods

Update: Some of the functionality discussed here has made its way into later versions of XRegExp. So, I'll admit that XRegExp 0.1, though hopefully interesting or useful for some people, was scaled back from my original plans. There were two reasons for this: To get it out the door. Aside from from a few marginally useful syntax constructs, [...]

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XRegExp: An Extended JavaScript Regex Constructor

Update: This version of XRegExp is outdated. See XRegExp.com 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 many [...]

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