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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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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
All you ever wanted to know about Regular Expressions but was too afraid to ask.,
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This review is from: Regular Expressions Cookbook (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.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book,
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This review is from: Regular Expressions Cookbook (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.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Very comprehensive, but a few more basics would have been nice,
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This review is from: Regular Expressions Cookbook (Paperback)
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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