I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...

Welcome to the Phantom Function blog collection’s inaugural post. In this series, Steve McMaster and Austin O’Neil are going to explore a number of useful custom functions we’ve built at Hurricane ...

Regular expressions (Regex) are patterns that match character combinations in strings. Regexes can be utilized as a powerful mechanism for solving string-matching problems and are supported by all ...

2. Regex Solution To overcome the above issues, I created a simple function based on regex — get_regional_id (). It takes a raw vector of Russian regions as an input and produces corresponding vector ...

Some say a set of regular expressions comprises a domain-specific language, or DSL; essentially, a mini-programming language. A full-blown programming language like Java or Python can do many things, ...

Regex is a powerful – yet overlooked – tool in search and data analysis. With just a single line, you can automate what would otherwise take dozens of lines of code. Short for “regular expression,” ...