Regular expressions are patterns that describe character combinations in text. Dreamweaver support for regular expressions empowers web developers by enabling them to find and quickly replace content with surgical-like precision.
In some cases, a web developer may want to create a regular expression that updates content such as changing copyright information throughout a site. Another example might be the case where a web developer wants to search quickly for declarations of a variable.
In this article, I will provide a basic overview of regular expressions as well as an example of how they can be used to help maintain Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) code on your site.
Written by Rob Christensen.
Chris, Los Angeles' CSS & ActionScript guru, successfully cannonballed into web development in the late 90's. Always caught up with the latest in Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and XML, Chris authored premium articles for the largest Dreamweaver/Flash community (www.DMXzone.com) and produced WebDevDesign (iTunes featured), a popular Web Design & Development Podcast. Somewhere, Chris finds time to run an authorized Adobe user group focused around open source and Adobe technologies. Being a big community leader, Chris Charlton remains a resident faculty member of the Rich Media Insitute and lends himself to speak at large industry events, like JobStock, NAB, and FITC Hollywood.
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