The first time I ever encountered a regular expression was many years ago now, but I still remember my first thoughts on it: What is this string-like thing? I don’t want to touch it, it looks scary. I ...

I'm trying to decode some data in Javascript and I thought regular expressions might help. The data is a string like so: I'm trying to avoid using a loop to then split(",") each array item. So is ...

Regular expressions are a big subject, and there are plenty of FAQs on them on the Web. As far as JavaScript is concerned, though, you need only set a variable equal to a specially formatted series of ...