Comments on: Getting started with Regular Expressions

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:43:22 +0000

Ryan, I spotted your RegExp Explorer a few days ago. It’s very cool. I don’t work with regular expressions often, but I’ll definitely look to play around with your explorer in the future.

By: Ryan Swanson

Ryan Swanson — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:17:21 +0000

Hey Josh,

I’ve followed your work for some time and enjoyed your presentation on creating your TreeMap component at FlexManiacs in D.C. You do some great work.

I just stumbled on this post about creating a regular expression tool and wanted to let you know about a similar application I’ve recently created that takes the idea a bit further.

It’s called the Flex 3 Regular Expression Explorer (similar in many ways to the Component and Styles Explorers) and includes not only the ability to work with regular expressions in a live-updating tool and an example library of common expressions, but also the ability to share your own examples with the community and an integrated help/reference panel.

http://blog.ryanswanson.com/2008/10/introducing-flex-3-regular-expression.html

I hope you’ll check it out and would certainly love some feedback.

Thanks,
Ryan

By: worked

worked — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:14:49 +0000

^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[&\-#!%]).{5,13}$ Working! Thanks again for the app!

By: worked

worked — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:43:32 +0000

…and I appreciate the app, I’ll be using it as I too learn more about regexp. Also, I found this snippet and it requires 6-12 characters, one uppercase, one lowercase and one number: ^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z]).{5,13}$ Now to find a way to require one special character and I’m all set. 😉

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:23:24 +0000

Sorry worked, I’m no regex expert. That’s why I made this app, so it would be easy to play around with regex until I figured it out.

By: worked

worked — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:44:16 +0000

What would the regexp look like if one required at least one number and one special character with a range from 6-12 characters? i.e., for a password input field. Thanks!

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[…] I recently posted a very simple component there. It’s a specialized TextInput box that will grow or shrink to fit its text. This component is beyond simple to implement, but it worked well in my Regular Expression explorer and I’m sure that others can find uses for it too. […]

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Tue, 23 May 2006 15:33:29 +0000

Thanks for adding the link to the Flex 2 regex guidelines, Rostislav. I agree that the input field should be longer for long regexes. Perhaps I will update the component to include resizing.

By: Rostislav Siryk

Rostislav Siryk — Tue, 23 May 2006 11:33:17 +0000

Very good tool. By the way, it will be handy to see some Flex 2 regex guidelines while playing with it. Also, I think stretched input field would be more useful to fit long RegExes, isn't it?