Google + Regexp = Searching Nirvana (Reblog)

Thanks to the fine folks at Daily Cup of Tech, today I learned that Google accepts regular expressions in its searches! Now I almost have a use for everything I've learned from Mastering Regular Expressions (which I regard as the best book currently available on the subject)... While Google Code Search lets you use full POSIX regexp, I'm still not sure how to fully exploit it from the standard search dialog.