Peter's beginning a self-improvement course in using regular expressions, at least when doing searches in Visual Studio. As part of achieving that goal, he's decided that the Find Files option is his ...

Tool Chest There are a few things that are important in our quest for literate regular expressions. The idea is to have a small program that converts our literate text into a regular expression.

From validating IP addresses to phone numbers, these are some of the handiest expressions in Boe's PowerShell toolbox. What are yours? As this article states, I want to show some of the regular ...

Regular expressions are a powerful programming tool, and the best way to solve many problems, but few people would call them a delight to use. Trying to tune a regex to match exactly the string ...

It is a Windows Shell Extension for more advanced bulk renaming, allowing users to use search and replace or regular expressions.

Yes, regular expressions have been part of VBA for a while now, but the new functions allow you to use regexes right in the spreadsheet grid. There are plenty of caveats, of course.

Microsoft provides a guide on how to use regular expressions with PowerRename to help rename files by searching for text patterns. The tool uses the ECMAScript, a highly popular grammar among ...