Using regular expressions in views fields

published by Albert Skibinski on Wed, 2012-01-18 11:18
XKCD regular expressions

I try to avoid regular expressions whenever I can, but sometimes it's just the easiest/fastest way to get stuff done. For example, I had these ugly RSS aggregated titles which were full of HTML entities and other jibberjabber. They were displayed using Views and the core aggregator. Using Views Field Rewrite I cleaned up the titles with some regexp.

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