{"id":160,"date":"2004-06-10T08:52:48","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T07:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=160"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:24:00","slug":"the_regex_coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2004\/06\/10\/the_regex_coach.php","title":{"rendered":"The Regex Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing a lot of regex these days for a spam plugin I wrote and it seems I am a bit rusty or simply just blind.  Remembered <a href=\"http:\/\/lair.moria.org\/blog\/entry\/Work\/Regular_Expression_Coach.txt\">Barry<\/a> mentioned some tool ages ago that visually test them a little bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=site%3Alair.moria.org+regular+expression\">Googling<\/a> on his site found it.<br \/>\nI can also recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weitz.de\/regex-coach\/\">this<\/a> as a very good tool for debugging complex regular expressions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing a lot of regex these days for a spam plugin I wrote and it seems I am a bit rusty or simply just blind. Remembered Barry mentioned some tool ages ago that visually test them a little bit of Googling on his site found it. I can also recommend this as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[121,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}