Regular expressions (regex) are sequences of characters defining a search pattern. Since it can be extremely useful in programmers everyday life, it was implemented into JavaScript. In this series of articles, I will show you how it works and what are its real-life usages. Hopefully, by the end of this part of the course, you […]
Hello again! Today we are back to regular expressions in JavaScript. If you are new to them, check out the first part of the course. This time we will learn how to write more elegant patterns and define the position of searched strings. The shorter way to define repetitions Recently we’ve learned, that the asterisk, […]
We covered quite a few features of regex so far. There is a lot more, though. Today we will deal with more advanced concepts, like groping and cover more of the RegExp object features in JavaScript. We will also learn how to use some of the features that ES6 brought us. Let’s go! exec It […]
Regular expressions can help us solve many different problems. They can also be the source of our headaches. A recent Cloudfare outage happened due to a regular expression that caused CPU to spike to 100% on (…) machines worldwide. In this article, we go through situations we need to watch out for like the catastrophic backtracking. To help […]
