We just barely scraped the surface of what you can do with regular expressions in PowerShell. If you'd like more information on this topic I suggest visiting a blog post by John Cook. It goes into ...

That's different from ls read*.txt, which will match both readme.txt and read.txt, because the asterisk means "zero or more characters" in the file glob. Here's the easy way to remember if you're ...

Regular expressions amplify the power of traditional search-and-replace commands by letting you search for patterns of text and then selectively modify what you’ve found.

How to use the regular expression functions provided by the ‘re’ library to match, search, and replace text in your Python programs.

I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...

Rubular Link Granted, that single line RegEx looks like a random garble of characters at first glance. In reality, it is a carefully constructed set of rules to dictate a pattern match on a string.