Inspiring problems to show off the importance of regular expressions?

Posted by ragu.pattabi on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by ragu.pattabi
Published on 2011-11-18T04:17:38Z Indexed on 2011/11/18 10:18 UTC
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I am planning to give a presentation/demonstration on regular expressions at work to encourage young developers to add this powerful and important tool in their toolbox.

Just teaching syntax doesn't cut it. I often see people say nice. After the presentation, they get on with their programming lives without ever thinking of using it mostly.

I am raking my grey matter to come up with some solid examples, not just problems that matches 'cat' and 'cut'. I missed to note down the occasions of my regex enlightenments to use here. :^(

Do you have some inspiring problems to share that could be solved with regex?

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