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Title Test Find Pattern Title
Expression
foo
Description
The "hello world" of regular expressions, this will match any string with an instance of 'foo' in it.
Matches
foo
Non-Matches
bar
Author Rating: The rating for this expression. Steven Smith
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Title: Eye-opener
Name: Erik
Date: 2/6/2004 6:08:28 AM
Comment:
Cool! I recently stumbled upon this regex when I was searching google on how to implement 'foo' and 'bar' into my application. Your regex really opened my eyes to the use of regular expressions for this. Thanx!


Title: You can learn stuff though
Name: Darren Neimke
Date: 1/22/2004 7:16:48 PM
Comment:
...even from Hello World! For example, to a beginner it might not be obvious that, this pattern can also be used to match against the text "football" and "afoot" :-)


Title: Re:??
Name: Michael Ash
Date: 1/22/2004 6:01:44 PM
Comment:
but if you don't know anything about regexs, it a good place to start.


Title: It was one of the first in the library
Name: Steven Smith
Date: 1/22/2004 5:48:18 PM
Comment:
I should probably delete this one, but I'm fine with it simply getting a terrible rating. It was, as should be obvious, just a test that the library was working, back before it had hundreds of useful regexes in it.


Title: ??
Name: Michael
Date: 1/22/2004 4:24:02 PM
Comment:
What are you doing, writing a tutorial to get your "contributor" count up? If you know anything about regex, you would know this!


Title: I can't believe
Name: eSa
Date: 11/17/2003 11:10:31 AM
Comment:
...it works!


Title: Waste of time
Name: sasha
Date: 8/4/2003 7:11:06 AM
Comment:
Very hard to make and extremely useful Regex LOL


Title: cool
Name: daniel
Date: 5/2/2003 11:59:34 AM
Comment:
well done dude, although it doesn't seem to match bar!


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