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I want learn regex, but learning regex just to learn regex would make me pull my teeth out.

Does anybody know of a good place to learn regex?

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Hah I found this to be a fun: http://regexone.com/

Also,

I haven't tried this one yet but I had lunch with the author so I'll give
him a plug: Learn Code the Hard Way

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On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 3:45 PM, thomas Perkins <thomas.perkins23@icloud.com> wrote:

I want learn regex, but learning regex just to learn regex would make me
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Does anybody know of a good place to learn regex?

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For me, "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl was The Thing,
which allowed be to grasp it all, long time ago.

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Does anybody know of a good place to learn regex?

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Hi Thomas,

You can directly try to match something from your Rails development log or
any file contains a lot of things.

Then try on this site: http://rubular.com or write a script at local.

Tip 1:

read about Character Properties:

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Tip 2:

Regexp free-spacing mode: Document the pattern using free-spacing mode. by eloyesp · Pull Request #3 · soveran/mote · GitHub

    -- Juanito Fatas

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Does anybody know of a good place to learn regex?

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Thanks for the quick responses everyone, I've played around with Rubular, never done regexone though, I'll check it out

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On Feb 3, 2016, at 5:53 PM, Victor Shepelev <zverok.offline@gmail.com> wrote:

For me, "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl was The Thing, which allowed be to grasp it all, long time ago.

2016-02-04 1:45 GMT+02:00 thomas Perkins <thomas.perkins23@icloud.com>:

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Another good tool for learning regular expressions is
The Regex Coach - interactive regular expressions - with that you can watch the regex
engine match. If you have an input and a pattern and want to find out
how a regex engine matches (or does not match) the pattern against the
input this is really helpful. It's a Windows program but it also works
with WINE.

Kind regards

robert

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On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:56 AM, thomas Perkins <thomas.perkins23@icloud.com> wrote:

Thanks for the quick responses everyone, I've played around with Rubular,
never done regexone though, I'll check it out

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