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copied!<p><strong>My Favorite Question</strong></p> <p>This is the question I had the most fun answering so far. It's a simple but really effective regex technique that can be used in a surprisingly large number of situations.</p> <p><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q/23589174/">Matching or replacing something, except when x, y or z...</a></p> <p><strong>Tricks / Answers I had fun with</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q/24903140/1078583">Match Any English ASCII Character Including Special Characters</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/a/24470891/1078583">What's in a <code>$</code>? It depends!</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q/24944417/1078583">Matching between Variable Delimiters: Use a Conditional</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/a/25050438/1078583">One Set of Parentheses, One Group Number: Branch Reset</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q/23839481">At which position in the string did the regex fail?</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/a/24794554/1078583">Match all possible groups of one to four words</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/a/24956016/1078583"><code>[][]</code> and friends: So you thought matching brackets was easy?</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q/24947409/1078583">Match Partially Duplicated lines</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q/24921103/1078583">Refactor a Regex with Subroutines</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q23859588/">Regex for nested (overlapping) matches</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21119365/regex-calculator/24237044#24237044">Regex Calculators (RPN and non-RPN)</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q/24173788">Match the last group of (potentially) nested brackets</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q/23879147/">Reverse-engineer regex pattern to find number of tokens and length of expected matches</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q/23727476/">Replace Match with the Number of the Line where it was Found</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q/24734796/">Extract All Unique Lines</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/a/24623419/1078583">Matching French letters</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/a/24472179/1078583">Capturing Two Optional Groups that Can Occur in Either Order</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Answers I loved reading</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/a/4247184/1078583">What's a number?</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q/3371697/">Replacing accented characters</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q/1845078/1078583">Options for Forced Failure</a> (ignore the accepted answer). This is just for fun—the standard is <code>(?!)</code> or <code>(*F)</code> in Perl and PCRE.</li> </ul> <p>Work in progress—I really want to add more here. By far the greatest thrill I get on Stack is when I read an answer that makes me go "Aha!..." and grasp a way of doing things that is so much more efficient than anything I had come up with. I've been blown away quite a few times. And one thing that's for sure is there's no shortage here of people who are a lot brighter than me. :)</p>

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