Regular expressions (regex) are extremely useful in extracting information from any text by searching for one or more matches of a specific search pattern. The basic anchors - ^ and $ expression action ^The matches any string that starts with The end$ matches a string that ends with end ^The end$ exact string match (starts and ends with The end) pragmatic matches any string that has the text pragmatic in it   The basic quantifiers — * + ? and...

If you are like me you probably have searched for clues to and found little... particularly when confronted by the errors as you unravel how this works.  Okay a slight exaggeration, there are snipets of info that people have solved this annoying issue in  making comments work in Drupal 8 REST services. The lack of collective information in resolving issues has meant hours of debugging and working through core code to understand what is actually happening.  If you want to...