Book Description
The fastest way to get up-to-speed with Regular Expressions.
Best-selling author Ben Forta presents the quickest approach for learning Regular Expressions, a must-know technology for all programmers and Web developers.
Useful, complete examples and usage notes for major Regular Expressions tasks and implementations.
Includes test code in numerous languages so that the examples can be applied and used immediately. RegEx is supported in all major development environments (for use in editing and working with code) and will thus appeal to anyone using these tools. In addition, every JavaScript developer should be using RegEx, but most dont as it has never been taught to them properly before. Developers using ASP, C#, ColdFusion, Java JSP, PHP, Perl, Python, and more can (and should) be using RegEx, and so every one of them is a potential reader too. Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes is a tutorial book organized into a series of easy-to-follow 10-minutes lessons. These well targeted lessons teach you in 10 minutes what other books might take hundreds of pages to cover. Instead of dwelling on syntax, terminology, and arcane examples and scenarios, this book takes a very hands-on approach to solving the needs of the majority of RegEx users who simply need to manipulate data.
Ben Forta is Macromedias Senior Product Evangelist for server products. Be has 20 years of experience in the computer industry in areas ranging from development to teaching to marketing. Be is the author of the popular ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, and its sequel Advanced ColdFusion Application Development, as well as books on SQL, Flash, JSP, HomeSite, WAP, Windows 2000, and other technologies. Bens Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes is the best-selling SQL book on the market.
Synopsis
RegEx is supported in all major development environments (for use in editing and working with code) and will thus appeal to anyone using these tools. In addition, every JavaScript developer should be using RegEx, but most don't as it has never been taught to them properly before. Developers using ASP, C#, ColdFusion, Java JSP, PHP, Perl, Python, and more can (and should) be using RegEx, and so every one of them is a potential reader too. Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes is a tutorial book organized into a series of easy-to-follow 10-minutes lessons. These well targeted lessons teach you in 10 minutes what other books might take hundreds of pages to cover. Instead of dwelling on syntax, terminology, and arcane examples and scenarios, this book takes a very hands-on approach to solving the needs of the majority of RegEx users who simply need to manipulate data.
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