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Chapter 10 REGULAR EXPRESSIONS This chapter covers the following topics: What regular expressions are and why they are useful The anatomy of regular expressions How to use regular expressions in ActionScript 3.0 Useful regular expressions Resources for more information about regular expressions In this chapter, you’ll spend some time looking at regular expressions, a brand-new feature introduced into ActionScript 3.0 that has helped make it a proper, grown-up programming language. Regular expressions have often been considered something of a dark art, reserved for propeller-heads who eat Perl scripts for breakfast and go back for seconds. Seeing regular expressions in the wild, you would be forgiven for writing them off as incomprehensible gobbledygook. For example, take a look at the following regular expression: Believe it or not, this pattern can be used to make sure that an e-mail address is valid. 405 CHAPTER 10 By learning a few simple rules, it’s possible to break down even complex regular expressions into understandable chunks. This chapter is all about learning those simple rules. I promise that by the end of this chapter, you will be able to break down the preceding regular expression and understand exactly what each part does. Once you’ve mastered regular expressions, you’ll find a whole bunch of uses for them in your ActionScript projects. They help you solve a specific kind of problem that would otherwise require a lot of coding.