Regular Expressions Cookbook: Detailed Solutions in Eight Programming Languages

By Jan Goyvaerts

Book Overview

Take the guesswork out of using regular expressions. With more than 140 practical recipes, this cookbook provides everything you need to solve a wide range of real-world problems. Novices will learn basic skills and tools, and programmers and experienced users will find a wealth of detail. Each recipe provides samples you can use right away.

This revised edition covers the regular expression flavors used by C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and VB.NET. You'll learn powerful new tricks, avoid flavor-specific gotchas, and save valuable time with this huge library of practical solutions. Learn regular expressions basics through a detailed tutorial Use code listings to implement regular expressions with your language of choice Understand how regular expressions differ from language to language Handle common user input with recipes for validation and formatting Find and manipulate words, special characters, and lines of text Detect integers, floating-point numbers, and other numerical formats Parse source code and process log files Use regular expressions in URLs, paths, and IP addresses Manipulate HTML, XML, and data exchange formats Discover little-known regular expression tricks and techniques

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1449319432
• ISBN13: 9781449319434
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
• Length: 612 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.1" x 9.2"

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I have several Regular Expressions books; most of them are from O'Reilly. However, others are more focused on various UNIX/c environments. Yet one cannot concentrate on the operating system and ignore what they operate on. This book covers a wider environment that is encountered mostly on websites and occasionally in specific industries (C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, and VB.NET). You learn that regular expression even though indispensable is not necessarily uniform in syntax. You can tell that this was not written in a laboratory or an ivory tower, and the recipes are not just practical but the ones you will be challenged with in the real world. Do not tell anyone but I have fun reading this book in advance of a chance to see the possibilities for the questions that arise. While you are being mesmerized by regular expressions, you are also being exposed to different environments; some you will be familiar with, and others will make you say where have I been? To name a few, various editors, the different languages themselves, if you have not had a chance to experiment, each chapter title is a different concept or valid reason to use regular expressions.