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Regular Expressions - D Programming Language
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Implementing regular expressions in Hare
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| | [AI summary] The developer of the Hare programming language explains the design, implementation, and usage of its POSIX-compatible regular expression engine, detailing how it uses finite state automata and instruction-based virtual threads to ensure linear-time matching.
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Human readable regular expressions
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| | [AI summary] This article explains how to use regular expressions for string processing and introduces the VerbalExpressions library to make regex patterns more human-readable in Java and JavaScript.
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ECMAScript regular expressions are getting better! ยท Mathias Bynens
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| | [AI summary] The article discusses recent advancements in ECMAScript regular expressions, including new features like dotAll mode, lookbehind assertions, named capture groups, Unicode property escapes, and set notation, along with proposals for further enhancements.
| | blog.stevenlevithan.com
Mimicking Lookbehind in JavaScript
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| Unlike lookaheads, JavaScript doesn't support regex lookbehind syntax. That's unfortunate, but I'm not content with just resigning to that fact. Following are three ways I've come up with to mimic lookbehinds in JavaScript. For those not familar with the concept of lookbehinds, they are zero-width assertions which, like the more specific \b, ^, and $...