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| Book: | Mastering Regular Expressions | |
| Subject: | the title says it all | |
| Date: | 2006-09-15 18:31:37 | |
| From: | Jeanne Boyarsky | |
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“Mastering Regular Expressions” takes a great book and modernizes it to include the latest programming languages. The book starts out with assuming you know anything about Regular Expressions – aside from the concept to be interested in picking up the book. The author introduces regular expressions through examples and quickly introduces the constructs. The second third of the book goes into the details of how regular expressions are processed. This includes correctness and efficiency issues. The final third on the book goes over the syntax in Java, .NET, Perl and PHP. Tools like grep and awk are described in the text as well. An alternate title for this book would have been “Thinking in Regular Expressions.” Even if you think you know regular expressions, this book teaches you how much more there is to learn. It also teaches you some of the finer points of regular expressions in your favorite programming language along with cross references to the earlier part of the book. The author uses good analogies to make the text understandable. After awhile, the concepts get so complicated that you have to read it many times to understand. A typically O'Reilly book. I've only had this book two weeks and I've already used it to make me a more effective developer! |
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