Marcos Placona on January 27th, 2010

How to return tag contents with regular expressions
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As most of you already know, I LOVE regular expressions, and think they are great to solve simple and complex tasks involving strings.
One thing I usually need to do, is extract contents from inside HTML or XML tags.

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Marcos Placona on May 21st, 2009

This is only a quick apache tip for when you are using mod_rewrite.
I’ve
been working on some rewriting lately, and noticed that when you use
them, the pattern applied much match exactly, otherwise you will either
get error, or your pattern will never find a match.

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Marcos Placona on March 5th, 2009

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes I have just came across this very nice service which promises to write Regular Expressions for you. We all know how painful writing a regular expression can be, and on this website, you can not only have the pattern created for you, but also have it translated into the [...]

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