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Have you ever had a school teacher that just loves what he or she is teaching? Loves it so much the lessons become interesting no matter how tedious or difficult the matter of the lessons are? Well, this is a book written in that sprit. I never expected regexes to be fun, but now I am a addict ...

This is a tough book to read through, but it is well written and even a non-programmer like me can enjoy it. On and off it goes so deep into the magic world of regexes I loose my directions, but for the most part it is reasonable hands-on and does teach a lot of good regex common sense.

If you really want to utilise regexes for getting things done -- beyond what search and replace in word processors provide -- this book is a must have. And fun: I had never realised the impact of a thing such as nothingness before I read this book ...