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Quick: If you shout "regular expressions" in a crowd of Linux users, what happens? Answer: Everyone will tell you the right way to use them, and every answer will be different. Regular expressions -- ...

This blog post is about comparing the running times of the most commonly used ways to loop through an array in JavaScript in order to see which one is the most efficient. Here is the code used for an ...

We present a formalization of a matching algorithm for extended regular expression matching based on locations and symbolic derivatives which supports intersection, complement and lookarounds and ...

Abstract: Code refactoring is an essential part of software development, because it reduces technical debt, enhances long-term code sustainability, and enables the implementation of functionality that ...

There are two types of people in the world: those who have no idea what a regular expression is, and those who not only know what they are but can compose them on the fly and tend to use them in ...

JavaScript’s arrays can hold heterogeneous types, change size on the fly, and readily insert or remove elements. Traditional methods like slice, splice, and push/pop do this by operating on the array ...