Over the course of a handful of video tutorials, I’m going to teach you how to use regular expressions effectively in your Javascript and PHP applications. As always, I’ll assume you know absolutely zip.
Editor’s note – this series has been transferred to Nettuts+ from our sister site, ThemeForest. It was originally published in early 2009 by yours truly.
Lesson 1: Introduction
Lesson 2: Matching
Lesson 3: Validating Email Addresses
Lesson 4: Javascript and “Replace”
Lesson 5: Preg_match_all, and Scraping Data
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Oh man Jeffrey, I needed this really bad. One thing that I still have yet to master/learn and don’t look forward to is regular expressions. I suppose now is a better time then ever…
Hey David – it’s not as hard as it looks. :) I promise. I have a more extensive article coming out later this week (Thursday) which should help as well.
love them meat ‘n potatoz
reg ex with lotsa gravyie, plz
Hey Jeffrey, loving the videos especially about this topic. It can be so powerful once you grasp the findementals.
If you can, it would be nice if you could do a short video tutorial on how to apply this on .htaccess files for redirecting, clean urls etc.
Keep up the good work.
Fahim (http://fswebsolutions.com)
Agreed, vote++ for tutorial on regex + redirect!
oh really love it :0 thanks man u great :D
Thank you very much, i was hoping for such a great tutorial.
Really helpful.
As you have told in the beginning,
“this series has been transferred to Nettuts+ from our sister site, ThemeForest.”
I would like the actual ThemeForest links for all 5 video, so i can go there and see the actual comments that users had made.
I hope it can help us.
How come I get an error.
undifined variable? I think I am ready to retire. I’ll go and bother my wife for few hours. Maybe, That makes me happy for a while. Stress!!
$test = ‘model1=David1&listed1=555.00&net1=555.00&model2=David1&listed2=555.00&net2=555.00′;
preg_match_all(‘/-\d+\=/i’, $test, $sorted_new);
foreach($sorted_new[1] as $str) {
echo $str.”";
}
David, you search for matches[1], but no “()” was defined in pattern :) close the sting in () what you want…
For some reason I can’t get the ^ symbol to work for the patterns beginning. eg ^cat for pattern
catmobile cats r us cat catch cat. Does that one not work?
I like this tutorial but I was wondering how I can get content wrapped in div tags
example
i really appriciate your efforts jeff and i hope th
i really appriciate your efforts jeff and big thanks.
I have a littele problem that i can’t watch the screencasts ,there is no streaming;so would you please fix that probleme because i really learned a lot of stuff from the tuts network.
Man Ive been looking for a set of tutorials like these. Ive found others but most just are clear and to the point.
Thank You Thank You Thank You So MUCH!!!
Jose
I can’t view number the number 4 and number 5 :( Maybe the link is not working or it just got deleted. Is there any other place where I can watch them?
Thanks
Hi Jeffrey.
Thank you very much for posting such a great and useful screencasts.
I got this little note here:
In Lesson 3 (Validating Email Addresses) we can also have strings such as rod@wgo.com.br
Therefore, I think one more precise regular expression for matching that would be something like:
\b[\w-]+@[\w-]+\.[A-Za-z_-]+[.A-Za-z]*\b
That’s it and keep up the good work.
rod~
Great Tutorials.. Until now regular expressions were some weird characters to me.. Now things start to make sense.. Thanks a ton..
Wow, what great tutorials!
Regex was only hieroglyphics for me until now. Thanks a lot!
Very useful indeed! Thanks :)
simply awesome !
Thanks also it release for all kinds of user without paying a single cent !!!
Well explained tutorials! Just what i needed :)
Really thank you!