Imagine you are looking for a name in a telephone directory, but you can't remember its exact spelling. You can spend ages searching through all the possible combinations, unless you have a tool that ...

I'm confused by Perl's regex abilities. There seems to be a lot of duplicate flags: ^ and \A both match the beginning of a string. $ and \Z both match the end. It seems redundant and confusing. I'm ...

Tony Northrup is a developer, security consultant and author with more than 10 years of professional experience developing applications for Microsoft Windows. Developers frequently need to process ...