Regular Expressions Cookbook

By Steven Levithan and 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596520689
• ISBN13: 9780596520687
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 493 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 7.0"

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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.