Do you have data and lists you keep having to massage to make it useful for your project? Have you heard of regular expressions but been frightened by the Klingon-looking examples? Fear no longer!<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll demystify regular expressions and show you how best to do them in PHP. We\u2019ll cover the syntax and functions that make PHP a great text-parsing language, and give you the foundation to learn more.<\/p>\n
As a bonus, I\u2019ll give you two cases people often use as examples for regexes that PHP gives you better native ways to accomplish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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