We aren’t sure how we feel about [pemistahl’s] grex program. On the one hand, we applaud a program that can take some input samples and produce a regular expression. On the other hand, it might be ...

Regular expressions — the things you feed to programs like grep — are a bit like riding a bike. It seems impossible until you learn to do it, and then it’s easy. Part of their bad reputation is ...

Since SharePoint 2010 now supports regular expressions for crawl rules, I wonder if these might be compacted into one rule. It's not a big deal to reenter these as-is, but I'd like to learn regular ...