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Regular Expressions Cookbook [Paperback]

Jan Goyvaerts (Author), Steven Levithan (Author)
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Publication Date: 29 May 2009 | ISBN-10: 0596520689 | ISBN-13: 978-0596520687 | Edition: 1

This cookbook provides more than 100 recipes to help you crunch data and manipulate text with regular expressions. Every programmer can find uses for regular expressions, but their power doesn't come worry-free. Even seasoned users often suffer from poor performance, false positives, false negatives, or perplexing bugs. Regular Expressions Cookbook offers step-by-step instructions for some of the most common tasks involving this tool, with recipes for C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and VB.NET.

With this book, you will:

  • Understand the basics of regular expressions through a concise tutorial
  • Use regular expressions effectively in several programming and scripting languages
  • Learn how to validate and format input
  • Manage words, lines, special characters, and numerical values
  • Find solutions for using regular expressions in URLs, paths, markup, and data exchange
  • Learn the nuances of more advanced regex features
  • Understand how regular expressions' APIs, syntax, and behavior differ from language to language
  • Write better regular expressions for custom needs

Whether you're a novice or an experienced user, Regular Expressions Cookbook will help deepen your knowledge of this unique and irreplaceable tool. You'll learn powerful new tricks, avoid language-specific gotchas, and save valuable time with this huge library of proven solutions to difficult, real-world problems.

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  • Paperback: 510 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (29 May 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596520689
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596520687
  • Product Dimensions: 18 x 2.7 x 23.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Detailed Solutions in Eight Programming Languages

About the Author

Jan Goyvaerts runs Just Great Software, where he designs and develops some of the most popular regular expression software. His products include RegexBuddy, the world's only regular expression editor that emulates the peculiarities of 15 regular expression flavors, and PowerGREP, the most feature-rich grep tool for Microsoft Windows.

Steven Levithan is a leading JavaScript regular expression expert and runs a popular regular expression centric blog at http://blog.stevenlevithan.com. Expanding his knowledge of the regular expression flavor and library landscape has been one of his hobbies for the last several years.

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5.0 out of 5 stars All you ever wanted to know about Regular Expressions but was too afraid to ask. 29 Aug 2010
By Mr. R. A. Quadling
Format:Paperback
I've been using Regular Expressions in PHP for about 5 years. I then had to start using them in other languages and came across those oh so subtle differences (incomplete implementation, missing features, etc.) that exist in different environments.

Some of the tools I used day to day are by Jan Goyvaerts, one of the authors of this book.

So, I did some checking and found many positive reviews and opinions of the book.

Since having bought the book, I'd have to recommend this as THE way to learn about Regular Expressions. This book covers all the major Regular Expression libraries/engines on offer today.

I think those at the beginning of their experience with Regular Expressions will gain a lot from this book. It covers all the main languages/environments in ways that I've never seen before. The main asset of this book over others is the recipe approach. For each aspect of regular expressions there are many examples of using that aspect. In all the languages that the book covers. Every example covers every engine. All the time.

And for those who are a little (or a lot) further along their career paths, this book will provide that useful reference to all the aspects that you know you know, but really can't quite remember. Or, if you are like me, moving to incorporate another set of languages into your skill set, then having it spelt out in a clearly understandable way, with worked examples, is going to provide you with a head start in what can be a very complex area of programming.

It is very in-depth, but is written in such a way that a casual dip in will provide you with something useful.

I loved it.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book 25 Jun 2009
By K. I. Miller
Format:Paperback
If you use regular expressions in your IDE or programs then this is a great book to get. It is easier to read than Friedl's Mastering Regular Expressions book and is packed with examples that you can use to base your own regexs on.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Small issues make it difficult for newcomers 9 Sep 2012
By mko
Format:Paperback
When you read the book, you can definitelly tell that authors have experience when it comes to different flavors of the regular expressions. When you go over the different aspects of regular expressions you can track the differences between the standards thanks to clear specification what is allowed and what's not in particular regular expressions convention. This is quite useful in case you work with different languages like Java, Perl, Python, etc. There are always small differences that can make a headache when all you need is a simple expression. Book starts with nice introduction into tools that will provide you with heavy support when it comes to regular expressions. It's a shame, though, it doesn't cover comprehensivelly Linux and Mac OS X. Both systems, comparing to Windows, have much more to do with regular expressions - I think. Linux and Mac OS X are the systems where you have an easy, out of the box, access to CLI and variety of languages. In fact, this part looks a little bit like an advertisement for a products developed by the authors. That's fine in the sense you should not expect authors to advertise products created by the competition. But still, without this part the whole book would be still complete.

I always strive to get an access to simple, comprehensive, and well explained content related to development. That's why I pretty much like cookbook style books. This one is such an example. I have found few examples that really cought my attention and were a surprise for me - even though I work with regular expression on day to day basis. However, there are two major issues with the book that may be stoppers for novice developers not familiar with the topic:
- lack of examples for download - if they were available, this would be a great benefit for newcomers.... Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 stars It's not good for your if you don't know regex already! 15 Aug 2012
By Marcin Dancewicz
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I just wanted to point out that this book is good for someone who knows regex already. I wanted to learn regex but I was disappointed because this book doesn't teach you regex from scratch, it's only using it - once you know it (hmmm...). In my case the next book I bought - "Regular Expressions in 10 minutes" - appeared to be the perfect choice.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Very comprehensive, but a few more basics would have been nice 30 Jan 2011
By TWW
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Bought this book to get an insight into Regular Expressions.

There are many fine examples of how to use regex, but for someone new to the subject it does take a few skips back and forth to begin to understand why the solutions shown work. A step by step breakdown is not always shown.

Once I'd studied a few more web sites with basic examples of Regex the book began to come into it's own as a very useful reference tool.
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5.0 out of 5 stars very good book 23 July 2009
By JulesMC
Format:Paperback
It's all in there one possibly ever needs to know about RegEx. A lot of really useful examples within a very well structured book. You will probably pick it up once you are faced with a problem. I found the solution to several of my problems readily made for me.
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