Piece together your own regular expression or choose from a pre-made selection.
(Like the creator if this site, I’m not a fan of regular expressions …or they’re not a fan of me. The logic just doesn’t stick in my brain.)
Before reading this article, I didn’t understand regular expressions. But now, having read this article, I don’t understand regular expressions and I don’t understand linguistics. Progress!
Regular expressions are my kryptonite so I can definitely imagine using the PHP port of this plain English syntax.
This article by George Saunders had me giggling from start to finish.