Comments on: Regex – can you read it? http://www.tschitschereengreen.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/25/regex-can-you-read-it/ Tschitschereengreen - the yoosic coding division Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:53:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: jerk http://www.tschitschereengreen.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/25/regex-can-you-read-it/comment-page-1/#comment-298 jerk Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:39:33 +0000 http://www.tschitschereengreen.com/blog/2007/10/25/regex-can-you-read-it/#comment-298 Dear, U means ungreedy... Dear,

U means ungreedy…

]]> By: Michael http://www.tschitschereengreen.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/25/regex-can-you-read-it/comment-page-1/#comment-296 Michael Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:29:42 +0000 http://www.tschitschereengreen.com/blog/2007/10/25/regex-can-you-read-it/#comment-296 Looks like it's capturing the href-value of any anchor-link that has 'trackback' anywhere in either the href value itself (ie. inside the quotes) or in the content of the link? (case-insensitive, multi-line, but I'm not sure about the U - unicode case-insensitivity??) Makes you appreciate verbose regex expressions with inline comments doesn't it?! (Like <a href="http://www.diveintopython.org/regular_expressions/verbose.html" rel="nofollow">Python's verbose regex syntax</a>) Looks like it’s capturing the href-value of any anchor-link that has ‘trackback’ anywhere in either the href value itself (ie. inside the quotes) or in the content of the link? (case-insensitive, multi-line, but I’m not sure about the U – unicode case-insensitivity??)

Makes you appreciate verbose regex expressions with inline comments doesn’t it?! (Like Python’s verbose regex syntax)

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