So like I said, I need to learn regular expressions. Wild cards on steroids. Well, I need to learn how to use mod_rewrite too, so I'm gathering what I need to study…the Apache documentation for mod_rewrite was easy enough to find. Then I hit Google looking for a good tutorial on regular expressions.

Jackpot.

Not only do I find a seriously complete tutorial, that site linked to the open source PCRE regular expressions library and a Delphi 7 wrapper that encapsulates it as an object. So I can get more use out of this studying.

Best of all, though, was finding The Regulator on Sourceforge.

The Regulator is an advanced Regular expressions testing tool, featuring syntax highlighting and web-service integration with Regexlib.com's database of online regular expressions.

I'd been wondering how I'd test the expressions. And here it is. I love it, seriously.