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Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition
By Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: August 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-596-52812-4
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-59-652812-6
Pages: 542
Table of Contents | Index
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, 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, mand of regular expressions is an invaluable skill. Regular expressions allow you
to plex 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
e 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 ing 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
langu