Austin Matzko's Blog » Regular Expressions http://austinmatzko.com A blog about philosophy, Christianity, web development and whatever else I feel like writing about. Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:14:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2-RC4-18391 I Am an Official Regex Day Winner http://austinmatzko.com/2008/06/06/happy-regex-day-to-me/ http://austinmatzko.com/2008/06/06/happy-regex-day-to-me/#comments Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:38:34 +0000 filosofo http://www.ilfilosofo.com/?p=478 Ben Nadel declared June 1, 2008 the first National Regular Expression Day, and to celebrate he hosted a giveaway of regex-related prizes, including Jeffrey Friedl’s Mastering Regular Expressions. As you can see, I won the book and got it in the mail yesterday. I use regular expressions all the time—in PHP, JavaScript, Perl, sed, grep, and vi—and they’re so essential to my work that I can’t wait to “master” them.

I think I may have sunk to new lows of geekiness.

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