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Mastering Regular Expressions 3rd Edition
Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for
manipulating text and data. They are now standard features
in a wide range of languages and popular tools, including
Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any language
using the .NET Framework), PHP, and MySQL.
If you don't use regular expressions yet, you
will discover
in this book a whole new world of mastery over your data. If
you already use them, you'll appreciate this book's
unprecedented detail and breadth of coverage. If you think
you know all you need to know about regular
expressions, this book is a stunning eye-opener.
As this book shows, a command of regular expressions is an
invaluable skill. Regular expressions allow you to code
complex and subtle text processing that you never
imagined could be automated. Regular expressions can save
you time and aggravation. They can be used to craft elegant
solutions to a wide range of problems. Once you've mastered
regular expressions, they'll become an invaluable part of
your toolkit. You will wonder how you ever got by without
them.
Yet despite their wide availability, flexibility, and
unparalleled power, regular expressions are frequently
underutilized. Yet what is power in the hands of an expert
can be fraught with peril for the unwary. Mastering Regular
Expressions will help you navigate the minefield to becoming
an expert and help you optimize your use of regular
expressions.
Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition, now includes a
full chapter devoted to PHP and its powerful and expressive
suite of regular expression functions, in addition to
enhanced PHP coverage in the central "core" chapters.
Furthermore, this edition has been updated throughout to
reflect advances in other languages, including expanded
in-depth coverage of Sun's java.util.regex package, which
has emerged as the standard Java regex implementation.Topics
include:
A comparison of features among different versions of many
languages and tools
How the regular expression engine works
Optimization (major savings available here!)
Matching just what you want, but not what you don't want
Sections and chapters on individual languages
Written in the lucid, entertaining tone that makes a
complex, dry topic become crystal-clear to programmers, and
sprinkled with solutions to complex real-world problems,
Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition offers a wealth
information that you can put to immediate
use.
Reviews of this new edition and the second edition:
"There isn't a better (or more useful) book available on
regular expressions."
--Zak Greant, Managing Director, eZ Systems
"A real tour-de-force of a book which not only covers the
mechanics of regexes in extraordinary detail but also talks
about efficiency and the use of regexes in Perl, Java, and
.NET...If you use regular expressions as part of your
professional work (even if you already have a good book on
whatever language you're programming in) I would strongly
recommend this book to you."
--Dr. Chris Brown, Linux Format
"The author does an outstanding job leading the reader from
regex
novice to master. The book is extremely easy to read and
chock full of
useful and relevant examples...Regular expressions are
valuable tools
that every developer should have in their toolbox. Mastering
Regular
Expressions is the definitive guide to the subject, and an
outstanding
resource that belongs on every programmer's bookshelf. Ten
out of Ten
Horseshoes."
--Jason Menard, Java Ranch
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