I had a lot of fun tonight at the Utah .NET User Group - I always do.  We had a very interactive, exciting discussion on Regular Expressions in .NET.  Despite the inclement weather this evening we had a pretty decent turnout.  Robert Merrill represented SOS Technical which was the sponsor tonight - thanks again!

The majority of the discussion today focused on how to "think" in regular expressions, and how to approach them by applying the principles of character classes, metacharacters, alternations, groupings, etc.  I had put together a very simple application (which I'll post here on the blog in the morning when I clean it up a bit) for testing regular expressions and viewing their results which was a fantastic aid in presenting the concepts.  I had a great time and I presume that everyone else in attendance did as well. :)