{"id":40,"date":"2015-01-05T12:36:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T12:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noahs-blog.net\/?p=40"},"modified":"2015-01-05T12:36:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T12:36:23","slug":"what-is-a-regex-and-how-does-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noahs-blog.net\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"What is a regex and how does it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular expressions (AKA regexes) are a great way for a program to parse strings. Here&#8217;s how to use one: You simply create a sort of &#8220;template&#8221; for how the string should look. <\/p>\n<p>An earlier post I made <a href=\"https:\/\/noahs-blog.net\/?p=62\" title=\"here\">here<\/a> links to a PDF file that goes over how to use a regex, and <a href=\"http:\/\/perl.plover.com\/Regex\/article.html\" title=\"regex workings\">here<\/a> is a link to an excellent explanation of how regular expressions work internally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular expressions (AKA regexes) are a great way for a program to parse strings. Here&#8217;s how to use one: You simply create a sort of &#8220;template&#8221; for how the string should look. An earlier post I made here links to a PDF file that goes over how to use a regex, and here is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/noahs-blog.net\/?p=40\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is a regex and how does it work?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noahs-blog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noahs-blog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noahs-blog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noahs-blog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noahs-blog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noahs-blog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/noahs-blog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noahs-blog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noahs-blog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noahs-blog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}