Regex Reminders - A brief explanation

Over the next couple weeks I'm going to post a series of regular expression examinations; each one will be a code intensive focus on a certain operations such as "Replace" or "Working with Matches and Groups".  The goal of the Regex Reminders is to end up with a lot of code for working with regex's that people can just use to "grab and go".  The series will also spend time looking at common regex techniques such as alternation and grouping techniques.

Each of the reminders will contain code samples written in both VB and C#.

It is anticipated that the entire series will span 7 or 8 items and will also appear as a link from RegexLib.com.

The first 4 items will be:

• Regex Reminders [0] - Commenting Regular Expressions
• Regex Reminders [1] - Replacement Operations
• Regex Reminders [2] - Working with Matches, Groups and Captures
• Regex Reminders [3] - Gunning for speed : efficiency