The built-in JavaScript regular expression engine can, under certain special combinations, run in exponential time. This situation can trigger what's referred to as a Regular Expression Denial of ...

Abstract: Regular expressions are notoriously difficult to get right, with developers often having to resort to trial-and-error approaches. Even so, little attention ...

Quick: If you shout "regular expressions" in a crowd of Linux users, what happens? Answer: Everyone will tell you the right way to use them, and every answer will be different. Regular expressions -- ...

We present a formalization of a matching algorithm for extended regular expression matching based on locations and symbolic derivatives which supports intersection, complement and lookarounds and ...

There are two types of people in the world: those who have no idea what a regular expression is, and those who not only know what they are but can compose them on the fly and tend to use them in ...

I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...

Regular expressions are a powerful tool for working with text data in JavaScript. They allow you to search, manipulate and extract specific parts of a string with precision. Although regular ...

Have you ever seen this warning ⚠: What if I ask you to create this functionality🤔? You might use a lot of loops and conditional statements based on the complexity required. Regular expression or ...