Comments on: Support escaping in regular expression replacement http://www.jasny.net/articles/support-escaping-in-regular-expression-replacement/ It's all about me, mysql and Einstein. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:08:00 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Arnold Daniels http://www.jasny.net/articles/support-escaping-in-regular-expression-replacement/comment-page-1/#comment-208833 Arnold Daniels Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:13:01 +0000 http://blog.adaniels.nl/?p=113#comment-208833 You seem to be right Dave. I've changed in in the article. You seem to be right Dave. I’ve changed in in the article.

]]> By: Dave http://www.jasny.net/articles/support-escaping-in-regular-expression-replacement/comment-page-1/#comment-208815 Dave Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:44:09 +0000 http://blog.adaniels.nl/?p=113#comment-208815 Thanks for the really helpful post, this is going to come in very handy. However, I think the negative lookbehind should have the question mark before the less than symbol. http://www.regular-expressions.info/lookaround.html Thanks for the really helpful post, this is going to come in very handy. However, I think the negative lookbehind should have the question mark before the less than symbol.

http://www.regular-expressions.info/lookaround.html

]]> By: Arnold Daniels http://www.jasny.net/articles/support-escaping-in-regular-expression-replacement/comment-page-1/#comment-94534 Arnold Daniels Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:50:38 +0000 http://blog.adaniels.nl/?p=113#comment-94534 Hi Jordi, The + isn't useless, it's there to increase performance. When the expression fails because of an uneven number of backslashes, it doesn't need to try the expression for each backslash, because they all will fail. Using a <a href="http://www.regular-expressions.info/possessive.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">possessive quantifier (*+ or ++)</a> prevents this. Hi Jordi,

The + isn’t useless, it’s there to increase performance. When the expression fails because of an uneven number of backslashes, it doesn’t need to try the expression for each backslash, because they all will fail. Using a possessive quantifier (*+ or ++) prevents this.

]]> By: Jordi Boggiano http://www.jasny.net/articles/support-escaping-in-regular-expression-replacement/comment-page-1/#comment-93254 Jordi Boggiano Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:40:02 +0000 http://blog.adaniels.nl/?p=113#comment-93254 Just a small note, although it doesn't change anything, in the final regex, "*+" an useless +. Just a small note, although it doesn’t change anything, in the final regex, “*+” an useless +.

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