“I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.”

Turing Award winner Donald Knuth said that, and it doesn’t stop there. All mainstream programming languages host regular expressions as a domain-specific language (DSL). To finally learn regular expressions thoroughly will provide you with a handy tool for the rest of your programming career.

Don’t get left behind. You can have the skills of knowing when and how to write clean, effective, maintainable regul...