Are regular expressions the same for PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Perl, and so on? If so, is there a chart or tutorial that explains regular expressions?
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Are regular expressions the same for PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Perl, and so on? If so, is there a chart or tutorial that explains regular expressions?
No, there often are subtle differences in supported features (mostly of the pretty advanced kind1). For example, JavaScript regular expressions don’t have lookbehind. PHP uses either POSIX extended regular expressions or PCRE (Perl-compatible regex), which are close to Perl’s feature-set. In fact, Perl is probably the ancestor of many advanced features in today’s regular expression engines.
As for tutorials and comparisons the site http://regular-expressions.info is a very good resource.
Once you got used to writing and applying them it often is helpful to just quickly try out things. I have found a REPL to be quite handy; I usually use Windows PowerShell but Ruby or Python are also pretty popular.
1 Thanks, Dancrumb.