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Lookbehind in Regex searches
October 03, 2009 @ 2:03 am

Regex's more esoteric features are easy to miss as they make sense to me only in a context that applies to my work. I've certainly read about lookahead and lookbehind before but until I needed it today and was pointed to look at this functionality in the Regex engine it just didn't sink in. Lookbehind allows matching or not matching of a string before the the string you are interested in. It effectively allows you to look for values that don't have x before another match which is actually quite common.

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Expanding Urls with RegEx in .NET
December 21, 2006 @ 6:42 pm

I frequently need to parse and auto-expand URLs inside of user input. Here's the routine I use to do this.

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