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Monday, December 25, 2006

Memorize (and Understand!) Regular Expressions in 20 Minutes Part 2

December 25, 2006

This is a continuation of Part 1, and now we’ll memorize the wild cards and repetitions in regular expressions.
So, we’ll just go through the line of expressions with a way to memorize each:
. – A period matches any character. Visualize a million grains of sand. Each of them is the same and matches the [...]

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Memorize (and Understand!) Regular Expressions in 20 Minutes

December 25, 2006

I’ve been reading the classic book on memorization, The Memory Book, and it’s really a complete memorization system. By associating new ideas with something you already know in a ridiculous way, you can memorize massive amounts of information at once.
We’ll start by memorizing the classically difficult to remember (and understand) regular expressions in Perl.
For those [...]

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