Adobe Regular Expressions Tutorial

[themightyant]

I fhave been following the regualr expressions tutorial here on Adobe 
https://www.adobe.com/devnet/archive/dreamweaver/articles/regular_expressions_pt1.html

However the second part linked in the footer is a 404, does anyone have a link to this that works?

https://www.adobe.com/devnet/archive/dreamweaver/articles/regular_expressions_pt2.html

Was going to contact Adobe directly but none of the contact links are working either!

[Nancy OShea]

David Powers was once a regular contributor here but not lately.   And it probably doesn't help that the tutorial is 10+ years old & archived.  I'll report it  to Adobe Staff and hopfully somebody can find the 2nd part, if it still exists.  Keep your fingers crossed.

[themightyant]

Thanks for the response. I hadn't realised the article was so old.

Regex is confusing and this is the best tutorial I have found at clearly demystifying it.  Despite it's age it is just as relevant as the day it was posted and comes pretty high on search results for good reasons.

I appreciate the help and if it can't be retireved I'll find another tutorial online.

Thanks again

[B i r n o u · Accepted solution]

Perhaps that some folks could repair the missing link, any way, if you need any tutorial online concerning Regex, this one is pretty simple, clear and effective

https://dev.to/ziishaned/learn-regex-the-easy-way-c4g

you will find many online platform for testing editing Regex, the one linked to the previous tutorial is pretty well done https://regex101.com/

but you will find many others if you prefer different approach as

https://regexr.com/

https://www.regextester.com/

and so on.. hope that helps

[themightyant]

Thanks Birnou, that's a great link and really helpful, clear and structired. 

Bounced off many of the other regex tutorials, it just didn't stick, which is why I liked the David Powers one on Abobe so much but this it great.

[B i r n o u]

It's cool that it can meet your expectations,

I think you have also seen the secondary links,

like https://www.regextester.com/ which on the right hand side proposes pattern sets, allowing not only frequent needs, but also to dissect complex queries and thus to learn from concrete.

as well as https://regexr.com/ which proposes on the left side some very interesting menus and sub-menus, as well as a small community full of ideas to explore

[themightyant]

I did and it is all helpful thank you very much.

For some reason I was really struggling with Regex.  I'll get there!

[B i r n o u]

yep reg ex is somehow not very enticing at first approach 🙂

cool that now you got your shoes on