Regex

Before Feared, Now conquered

So I have known about regex for a while, I don't know when I first saw these strange strings, but I feared them.

But now I can proudly say I have conquered over my fear of Regex.

These past two days I read Michael 's Introducing Regular Expression, Its a Pretty good read, would definately recommend to persons new to regex. Now I know what this is ^([\w-.!#$%&;'*+-/=?^_`{|}~]+)@((?:\w+\.)+)(?:[a-zA-Z]{2,})$, its an regex to match email. You can further improve it as well.

So I also use the Redirector extension by Einar Egilsson and now I understand how the regular expression in the redirects actually works and I also ported all the wildcards to regex.

EDIT - I came to know that Einar Egilsson has been passed away, see this issue for more details.

RIP Einar

Overall, Regex