Mastering Regular Expressions 3e

Jeffrey E F Friedl

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OReilly & Associates
18 August 2006

Software Engineering

"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 Expressi"

By: Jeffrey E F Friedl
Imprint: OReilly & Associates
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 858g
ISBN: 9780596528126
ISBN 10: 0596528124
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 18 August 2006
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jeffrey Friedl was raised in the countryside of Rootstown, Ohio, and had aspirations of being an astronomer until one day he noticed a TRS-80 Model I sitting unused in the corner of the chem lab (bristling with a full 16K of RAM, no less). He eventually began using Unix (and regular expressions) in 1980, and earned degrees in Computer Science from Kent (BS) and the University of New Hampshire (MS). He did kernel development for Omron Corporation in Kyoto, Japan for eight years before moving in 1997 to Silicon Valley to apply his regular-expression know-how to financial news and data for a little-known company called Yahoo! When faced with the daunting task of filling his copious free time, Jeffrey enjoys playing Ultimate Frisbee and basketball with friends at Yahoo!, programming his house, and feeding the squirrels and jays in his back yard. He also enjoys spending time with his wife Fumie, and preparing for the Fall 2002 release of their first software project together.

Reviews for Mastering Regular Expressions 3e

Indispensable for text processing wizards and regex newcomers alike. - Paul Hudson, Linux Format, February 2007 In addition to the sheer volume of information, one thing that sets this book apart is that the author uses real-world rather than contrived examples. A few of the examples were situations that I have yet to come across, but many were either been there, done that or things that I had to go out and try. - James Mohr, Linux Magazine, April 2007

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