Regular expressions have been part of the programmer’s toolkit for a long time, with their creation by Stephen Cole King in 1951. Their ability to match word patterns make them a powerful tool for ...

The first time I ever encountered a regular expression was many years ago now, but I still remember my first thoughts on it: What is this string-like thing? I don’t want to touch it, it looks scary. I ...

The whole of the JavaScript language is built on one central data structure - the associative array. Objects in JavaScript are just associative arrays and this causes a lot of confusion at first. But ...