Here we go again! Another exciting blog entry talking about programming theory. This episode comes by way of a question that appeared on the board today. Someone was looking to pick out colors from an image, convert them to a hex value and write them to a CSV file (comma separated file) for Excel. I put this in the Deep Underground Misc category because frankly I don't know much about ...
Regular expressions... sounds like a complicated term doesn't it? You better believe that when I drop the term at an office dinner party, others either immediately tune out or start saying "Oh hey so and so, good to see you" and then walk off pretending to say hi. Little do they know that the idea behind regular expressions is pretty simple and can actually make their lives easier. But hey, ...