Simple Regex

Regex quick reference
[abc]     A single character: a, b or c
[^abc]     Any single character but a, b, or c
[a-z]     Any single character in the range a-z
[a-zA-Z]     Any single character in the range a-z or A-Z
^     Start of line
$     End of line
\A     Start of string
\z     End of string
.     Any single character
\s     Any whitespace character
\S     Any non-whitespace character
\d     Any digit
\D     Any non-digit
\w     Any word character (letter, number, underscore)
\W     Any non-word character
\b     Any word boundary character
(…)     Capture everything enclosed
(a|b)     a or b
a?     Zero or one of a
a*     Zero or more of a
a+     One or more of a
a{3}     Exactly 3 of a
a{3,}     3 or more of a
a{3,6}     Between 3 and 6 of a

options: i case insensitive m make dot match newlines x ignore whitespace in regex o perform #{…} substitutions only once

Euphoria on Linux

Euphoria is one of my first programming language which i learn by my self when i still at high school (1997). I get euphoria from shareware cd back then. Today im installing it on linux mint. Its have been a long time and now euphoria version is at 4.1.0 and maintained by openeuphoria.org.

Here is how i install euphoria.

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Install sqlite3 gem

To install sqlite3 gem we need to install development package for ruby and sqlite3 it self because of the need to compile gem native extension.

On ubuntu/mint/debian do as follow :

apt-get install ruby-dev

apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

Dont forget to execute as root.

After that we can execute gem install sqlite3.

Thats all … Bye.

Happy chinesse new year 2570 !