from Andy Boothe
Need a regular expression to recognize the 249 officially-assigned codes from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and alpha-3 standards? Here they are!
ISO 3166-1 is a living standard and changes over time. This page is current as of November 11, 2024.
Continue reading “Regex for ISO 3166-1 Country Codes”Based on the results of this JMH benchmark, string operations are faster than regex operations in Java, even if the two operations are logically the same, like String.equals and Pattern.matcher/Matcher.matches.
In some cases, much faster.
Continue reading “In Java, Strings Much Faster than Regexes, Even for Same Operations”Need a regular expression to recognize the 50 US state names or USPS abbrevations? Here it is!
Continue reading “Regex for 50 US States”If you ever need to convert “plain” social media text like:
Hey @importantguy, check out my project https://www.mycoolproject.com/ #PrettyPlease
into “rich” social media text like:
Hey @importantguy, check out my project https://www.mycoolproject.com/ #PrettyPlease
Then you need a social text parsing library. The industry standard is twitter/twitter-text, but it doesn’t work for everything. (For example, it only parses valid Twitter mentions, but will not parse all valid TikTok mentions, since those screen names can contain a “.”.) So while you may need to customize for your specific use case(s), this post should at least give you a good starting point.