Javascript’s regular expression library is becoming world class, guaranteeing that the odd little pattern language will likely be around for generations to come.

It's been a while since I worked on regexs in JavaScript, but generally the way you do this in most programming languages is to build the regex as a string and then pass it into the regex engine.

The WebKit team has announced its next-generation JavaScript engine, called SquirrelFish Extreme, before the previous SquirrelFish even made it into a shipping product. In the last three months ...