I don't know of any great tutorials, but I have found this tool very helpful:
http://www.regexper.com It decompiles a regexp into a nice easy to read "railroad" diagram, makes it much easier to decode what's going on. For example, a particularly hairy regexp in the TW source code is this one: /\s*([A-Za-z0-9\-_]+)(?:\s*:\s*(?:"""([\s\S]*?)"""|"([^"]*)"|'([^']*)'|\[\[([^\]]*)\]\]|([^"'\s]+)))?/mg Regexper transforms it into this: [image: Inline image 1] Best wishes Jeremy On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Stephan Hradek <stephan.hra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I LOVE RegExps, but as I'm using them for almost 20 years now, I can't > tell you of any good tutorial. > > Why not take any online regexp tester and any documentation and simply try > it out. > > I also like the jEdit texteditor very much as it has good RegExp support > and works on almost any platform having Java. You can use that to test > regular expression search and replace. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:jeremy.rus...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
