Bojan Bjelić

Month: November 2010

  • Searching from browser – Firefox quick searches and Chrome search engines

    Search engine web site can be skipped

    Some new browsers have a Search field (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, f.ex.), it’s located at the top right part of the browser window, next to the address bar. This is a nice little feature, you can select a search engine, type the search terms and submit. Then search engines site is opened with results. Usually suggestions are shown as you type.

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  • Regular expressions are a tool, not a problem

    What are regular expressions?

    Regular expressions are a way to describe a pattern to match a piece of text.

    So if you want to find another “similar” word in a text, badly formatted phone numbers, or replace “same kind” of a (X)HTML element regardless of attributes, regular expressions are the way to go. Regular expression can be also referred to as a “regex” or “regexp”.

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