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Utilize server-side regular expressions

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by maryweilage

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This week's .NET e-newsletter discusses how to utilize server-side regular expressions, which have a variety of applications. Do you use regular expressions in your .NET development work? Are there any regular expressions tips that you want to share with your peers?

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by Member 22892578

These are a dangerous weapon the armoury of those die-hards who would like to take us back to the good old days when computers were in 'Computer Laboratories' run by men in white coats.

by richclaussen

In the first example regex, ^a..$, the article says that it will match "all text that begins with the lowercase "a", followed by two letters." It will actually match lowercase "a" followed by any two *characters* (except new line).

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