NickTheGreek 160 Report post Posted August 23, 2018 https://www.regular-expressions.info/ Welcome to Regular-Expressions.info The Premier website about Regular Expressions A regular expression (regex or regexp for short) is a special text string for describing a search pattern. You can think of regular expressions as wildcards on steroids. You are probably familiar with wildcard notations such as *.txt to find all text files in a file manager. The regex equivalent is ^.*\.txt$. But you can do much more with regular expressions. In a text editor like EditPad Pro or a specialized text processing tool like PowerGREP, you could use the regular expression \b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,}\bto search for an email address. Any email address, to be exact. A very similar regular expression (replace the first \bwith ^ and the last one with $) can be used by a programmer to check whether the user entered a properly formatted email address. In just one line of code, whether that code is written in Perl, PHP, Java, a .NET language, or a multitude of other languages. https://www.regular-expressions.info/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
