Re: Sir, Please Step Away from the Regex. When to Use Regular Expressions in Code.

possible248 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:12:49 -0000

Oh dear, you are correct.

My apologies for the obvious sloppiness in writing the post. Much thanks given to you. I have corrected the post to reflect this.

Re: Sir, Please Step Away from the Regex. When to Use Regular Expressions in Code.

steve — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:39:24 -0000

If you are going to write an article criticizing regex overuse, you might want a regex that matches your description.

/^3.+/ does not simply mean 'start with 3'. It means 'start with 3 and one or more additional characters'.

/^3.*/ is probably what you wanted.

+ means 'match the preceding element one or more times' whereas * means 'match the preceding element zero or more times'

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