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title: "Notes from my .NET Rocks show on Regex"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/9/27/notes-from-my-net-rocks-show-on-regex.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/9/27/notes-from-my-net-rocks-show-on-regex.html"
published: "2006-09-27T11:50:48"
updated: "2006-09-27T11:50:48"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Notes from my .NET Rocks show : I say waaay to many \"uh\"s and \"you know\"s and \"for example\" One big mistake in the Regex tutorial : i said \".\" means \"zero or more of something\" but it's actually \" * \". Note about the…"
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/"
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# Notes from my .NET Rocks show on Regex

By Roy Osherove September 27, 2006

**Historical article** · Originally published September 27, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

Notes from my[.NET Rocks show](http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=198):

- I say waaay to many "uh"s and "you know"s and "for example"
- One big mistake in the Regex tutorial :  i said "." means "zero or more of something" but it's actually " \* ".
- Note about the various regex frameworks out there:

- Think of the difference between the different regex libraries out there like the difference between Ansi-SQL and PL-SQL: same - but different capabilities based on same basic standard

- The part about [Source Server](http://sourceserver.osherove.com/) in the end is totally not understandable
- The "grumpy" question could have been answered better, and I'm not sure it was in place at all...


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