Justin Cooney

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I am a Senior Applications Programmer / Analyst with years of experience developing enterprise solutions using the Microsoft technology stack including C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, IIS and SQL Server. I specialize in Web application development with a focus on building secure systems, integrating applications, and designing robust database structures.

Category: Regular Expressions

  • Regular Expressions in .NET to Surround but not Replace Text Matches

    ASP.NET offers strong support for regular expressions in the System.Text.RegularExpressions Namespace. This is great since regular expressions are essential if you want to do anything beyond basic text manipulations and searches. You can read more about regular expression support in ASP.NET on the official MSDN page. The MSDN site also includes a few good getting…

  • Regular Expressions: What are the best Regular Expression testing tools?

    Personally, I love Regular Expressions. They are incredibly useful and can quickly turn a task that would take many lines of code into a single statement. They are perfect for text manipulation and forms processing & validation. In general they simplify the everyday coding lives of developers world-wide. However, Regular Expressions do come with a…