Lookarounds, like regular expressions in general, are too often avoided. Why? We avoid them because we don't understand them.

The time has come.

The Lookarounds

There are 4 types lookarounds. They are

Readers of the previous post in this series will remember a Pig Latin translator we created using groups and captures. That translator included a selector, \b, we had not yet explored. It

In the first post of this series, we looked at the basic building blocks of regular expressions: the characters and quantities. The next major building blocks are groupings and captures. Both features

Regular expressions, like CSS or the workings of Agile process, are some of the least understood coding aspects among young programmers, and for good reason. Regex use a syntax entirely of their