---
title: "The Regex Challenge: Blogn' my way to the PDC"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/20/the-regex-challenge-blogn-my-way-to-the-pdc.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/20/the-regex-challenge-blogn-my-way-to-the-pdc.html"
published: "2005-06-20T23:24:00"
updated: "2005-06-20T23:24:00"
tags: ["Blogging"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Here's my official Blogn' for the PDC entry. I've tried to make it...different. http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/articles/pdc.aspx \"I tried to come up with something innovative and fun to deliver my message. Something…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# The Regex Challenge: Blogn' my way to the PDC

By Roy Osherove June 20, 2005 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 20, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

[![blogging my way to pdc](https://osherove.com/img/wb/f25d8784_channel9.msdn.com_pdc_Flairs_Blogmyway-h.jpg)](http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc/pdcfriends.aspx?contest=true)

Here's my official Blogn' for the PDC entry. I've tried to make it...different.

[http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/articles/pdc.aspx](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/articles/pdc.aspx)

_"I tried to come up with something innovative and fun to deliver my message. Something that I like doing and that I think other people might find intriguing. I didn't want to simply write stuff down and be like all the rest of the other blog entries. After all, creativity points matter. So , consider this creativity not just for creativity's sake, but also as a way to discover a world of powerful techniques to manipulate text.
 
I'm speaking, of course, about **Regular Expressions**. "_

[Read the rest](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/articles/pdc.aspx) and accept the Regex Challenge.

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## About the author

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