Regex on A Blog for the Uninitializedhttps://www.nilpointer.blog/tags/regex/Recent content in Regex on A Blog for the UninitializedHugoen-us<a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Licensed under Apache 2.0</a>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:48:58 -0700On Regular Expressionshttps://www.nilpointer.blog/posts/2026/03/on-regular-expressions/Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:48:58 -0700https://www.nilpointer.blog/posts/2026/03/on-regular-expressions/<p>Way back when, I was primarily a Perl developer. I actually did my first interview for LinkedIn in Perl. I always liked that the language was created by a linguist (I legitimately miss using <code>unless</code>).</p> <p>Today, though, besides the occasional one-liner, I think Perl is most known for its contributions to how we all (now) use regular expressions (this post isn&rsquo;t going into what they are or how to use them).</p>