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The latest post on the Unicode Consortium blog gives an exhaustive list of all the new Unicode properties in regular expressions (regex), and explains why all the supported properties are so important and can be so useful:
https://blog.unicode.org/2026/03/uts-18-more-unicode-properties-in.html
I … I think I fell into a hole.
Said hole seems to be #XML + #XSLT shaped.
XSLT’s ability to translate XML into #HTML and / or plain text … is — in a word —AMAZING to me.
Combine #XPath selection and … WOW!
I feel like this is going to be a game changer for some things that I do. Similar to #regularExpressions were 25+ years ago.
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#awk #GNUawk #regular #expressions #RegularExpressions #regex #programming #GNU #NotUnix #OpenSource #POSIX
What are some of the ways we can customize regex in CSharp?
Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2024/04/01/regex-options-in-csharp-beginners-guide-to-powerful-pattern-matching/
Want to learn how to use regular expressions in CSharp?
Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2024/04/02/regular-expressions-in-csharp-3-examples-you-need-to-know/
Are you sure that it was #Wikipedia? Because this is the sort of thing that has endless modern GitHub and #StackExchange posts, and a claim that there was an official government regular expression at one point in the past.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/51885364/340790
https://github.com/stemount/gov-uk-official-postcode-regex-helper/blob/master/README.md
Whereas Wikipedia has had the British Standard mentioned for almost 20 years at this point, not 15.
Before then it had a haphazard half-arsed list of #RegularExpressions, where every so often someone had come along and appended text saying that "well, actually, the aforegiven does not work; *this* is the *more complete* regular expression".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/23157377
It had grown 4 times in that way with a succession of invented regular expressions, each one described as "more complete" than the last, by the time someone came along with the #BS7666 one in 2006 and switched from Perl syntax to standard POSIX syntax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/89001370
The "Well, actually"s were gradually approaching it.
The episode came out on time (Saturday) but this announcement is a bit late because of travel. It’s another episode of our #Technology #Podcast, @RuntimeArguments.
Jim (@jammcq) did the research and does the presentation in this episode; Wolf (@YesJustWolf) asks the questions! This episode, Jim tells us all about #POSIX! What does the word mean, where does the idea come from, how did we get here, how it touches you today, and if it should influence what tools you use, how you use them, and anything you build on top of them!
Get it in all the usual places. Send us feedback to [email protected].
Also, #RegularExpressions are a programming "cheat code". They should be in your toolbox!
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Reference links:
- UTS #18: Unicode Regular Expressions
🔗 https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/
- UTS #18: Unicode Regular Expressions [Proposed Update]
🔗 https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/proposed.html
- Issues - tonton-pixel/unicopedia-plus - Codeberg.org
🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-plus/issues
Raku: The match of a regex is automatically stored in $/, and this variable then also provides access to the text before ($/.prematch), to the text after ($/.postmatch), and to the match's position ($/.from and $/.to). Nice.
https://docs.raku.org/language/regexes#Literals_and_metacharacters
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