Posts tagged with regex
Regular expressions are powerful, PHP but they are not known to be readable, and more often than not, maintaining a regular expression is not a straight-forward task. Here are some tips to improve and write better regular expressions in PHP.
Read more [php.watch]
At Full Stack Europe 2019 my colleague Alex gave an amazing talk on regex.
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A nice site that clearly breaks down and explains how a regex works
Read more [ihateregex.io]
Emily Shaffer makes the case for commenting regular expressions.
It’s probably not a good idea to encourage your coworkers to think critically about what life would be like if you got hit by a bus, but the good news is that you can simultaneously document your regular expression and teach your coworkers some regex basics, if you comment them carefully!
Read more [nasamuffin.github.io]
PHP offers some functions to work with regular expressions, most notably preg_match, preg_match_all and preg_replace. Unfortunately those functions are a bit hard to use. Take preg_match_all for example, it requires you to pass in an array by reference to get all the matches. When something goes…