Entries from December 2008

Online Tool for Testing Regular Expressions

Date December 29, 2008 by Isaac

Today, while trying to get a particular regular expression to work I found an online tool to help me out.  What is particularly nice about this tool is that you can try multiple strings at a time against your regular expression.  Go check it out: http://www.fileformat.info/tool/regex.htm.
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http://www.fileformat.info/tool/regex.htm

Escaping HTML/XML Characters

Date December 17, 2008 by Isaac

Sometimes I do a post where I include snippets of HTML or XML. In those cases I need to escape the HTML or XML characters so they will show up properly in your browser. I found this online utility today that automates the task and let’s me paste in my escaped XML to [...]