Ask HN: How do I get started with regular expressions? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do I get started with regular expressions?

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Post by wcfields » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 4:24 PM UTC

adrian_pop wrote: post #2

Here's a first link. It's a visual matching tool for your regex and targeted text + several saved regex expression by the community: http://gskinner.com/RegExr/

This is amazing! (and amazingly helpful with the Community tab to show examples!)

Re: Ask HN: How do I get started with regular expressions?

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Post by ulisesrmzroche » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

http://rubular.com/ is another way to get a feel for them.

Re: Ask HN: How do I get started with regular expressions?

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Post by logn » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 5:31 PM UTC

http://regular-expressions.info

"Mastering Regular Expressions" by Friedl is the ultimate resource, but for getting started that website above will let you learn the practical syntax.

Re: Ask HN: How do I get started with regular expressions?

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Post by seanccox » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 10:41 AM UTC

Wow, thanks for all this feedback. Once I get a chance to wade through these resources, I'll let ya'll know what I found the most useful. Thanks again.

Cheers, -s

Re: Ask HN: How do I get started with regular expressions?

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Post by andyzweb » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 5:12 PM UTC

http://regex.learncodethehardway.org/

Re: Ask HN: How do I get started with regular expressions?

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Post by kgen » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 1:30 AM UTC

This is another plug, but people have told me that they've found RegexOne (http://regexone.com) to be pretty useful in learning and practicing regular expressions interactively.