Regexp Mini Tutorial: Grouping and Referencing

Regexp Mini Tutorial: Grouping and Referencing

By Abigail from Philadelphia.pm, NY.pm, AmsterdamX.pm
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 08:55 AM
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language:
Tags: expressions regular tutorial

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This mini tutorial will explain how grouping and (back)referencing works in regular expressions. Special attention will be paid to the new 5.10 features: named capture groups, %+ and %-, relative backreferencing, \g{ }, and group count resetting. We will also show how you can use (named) subpatters to write powerfull parsers.

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Attended by: Kenneth Graves (‎kag‎), David H. Adler (‎dha‎), Olaf Alders (‎oalders‎), Shana Andreychek, brian janaszek, Adri Mills, Duane Brown (‎duaneb‎), Lisa Wilcox, Gwendolyn Schmidt, Packy Anderson, michael shomsky,