Quest starts at:Apr 22, 2000 at 10:00 UTC
Quest ends at:Apr 26, 2000 at 02:00 UTC

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This quest will include any tutorials you add on regular expressions. Stuff added within the categorized Q&A section. One thing I think that would be cool is if people added snippets for golden regular expressions and then we can compile all of those onto one page.

Also this time around add a note to this node linking any nodes you made that you'd like considered for "grading" in this quest.

If none of the previous quests have grabbed you, add your ideas to Got quest ideas?. I've got a few ideas that I think would be kewl but I'm going to have to code up some things specifically for them so I'll probably wait until exams are over and I have a little bit more time to work.

vroom Since there was so little participation in this quest I'm going to give those who did participate 20 XP each.

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RE: Regexp Quest
by chromatic (Archbishop) on May 18, 2000 at 03:44 UTC
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RE: Regexp Quest
by Aighearach (Initiate) on Apr 22, 2000 at 15:09 UTC
    I've added an example of a real world use of regexr in dynamic CGI scripts.
    Enjoy.

    -- 4c6966653a20546865207365617263682066 6f7220746861742070657266656374204765 656b20436869632c20746865206f6e652077 6974682074686520737061726b6c696e6720 657965732077686f20706c61797320697320 7261696e2e

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RE: Regexp Quest
by perlmonkey (Hermit) on Apr 24, 2000 at 11:22 UTC
    Between two replies to the question 'matching comments' I wrote a little routine with regex's that matches nested arbitary comments.

    It turned out to be easier than I anticipated.

    Basically I think this site makes a decent stab at coving regex questions, so I dont see what else we can contribute to the quest.
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RE: Regexp Quest
by perlmonkey (Hermit) on Apr 25, 2000 at 06:11 UTC
    I toyed with the idea of writing a tutorial for regex's but there is already a bit there. Plus there is absolutely no way I can write anything near as good as the perlre pages.

    I suggest that you just link the perlre page to the tutorial page and call is something like The Definative Guide to Regular Expressions This would be particularly helpful to non-perl programmers becasue I doubt they generally think to look in the man pages for regex definitions.
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RE: Regexp Quest
by ZZamboni (Curate) on Apr 24, 2000 at 19:23 UTC
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RE: Regexp Quest
by ZZamboni (Curate) on Apr 25, 2000 at 01:39 UTC
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