Regular expressions can quickly grow to be large, dense, and impenetrable. In today’s episode you’ll learn how Ruby helps you compose them out of smaller, manageable pieces!
Tag: regex
Episode #604
Extended Regex Syntax
Regular expressions are sometimes accused of being a write-only language. Learn how to clarify your patterns with Ruby's extended regex syntax!
Episode #493: Special Variables Part 3: Regex Matching
Learn about one final category of Ruby's Perl-style special variables, and some guidelines for using them.
Episode #424: Rake Regex Rule
In this episode we'll learn to use advanced Rake rules to define and track arbitrarily complex file dependencies.
Episode #408: Leaning Toothpicks
A quick episode about regular expression quoting.
Episode #406: Last Match
In this episode, we get lazy and lean on the information that Ruby captures about regex matches.
Episode #375: Named Capture
Organize your regex capture groups with named captures!
Episode #274: Backreference
Today's episode is about creating self-referential regular expressions.
Episode #260: Regex Capture Groups with Nell Shamrell
Guest chef Nell Shamrell shares an intro to working with regex capture groups in this episode.