Regular Expressions
Posted by Karthik Viswanathan on Thu 16 April, 2009 at 23:50:44 · Tags: perl, tutorial
How many times have you had to dig through a long, confusing string for information? This has been a common problem for years. What’s the solution? Regular expressions.
What are regular expressions? Well..
Now that you’ve seen that… guess why so many people do NOT program in Perl? 
To put it very simply, regular expressions are strings that search for patterns. Patterns can be a few letters or enormous strings with many wild cards. In this tutorial, I will outline some basics of regular expressions (also known as regexes).
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