โ Scribed by Tony Stubblebine
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This handy little book offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application. Ideal as a quick reference, Regular Expression Pocket Reference covers the regular expression APIs for Perl 5.8, Ruby (including some upcoming 1.9 features), Java, PHP, .NET and C#, Python, vi, JavaScript, and the PCRE regular expression libraries.
This concise and easy-to-use reference puts a very powerful tool for manipulating text and data right at your fingertips. Composed of a mixture of symbols and text, regular expressions can be an outlet for creativity, for brilliant programming, and for the elegant solution. Regular Expression Pocket Reference offers an introduction to regular expressions, pattern matching, metacharacters, modes and constructs, and then provides separate sections for each of the language APIs, with complete regex listings including:
Content: Introduction to regexes and pattern matching --
Regular expression cookbook --
Perl 5.8 --
Java (java.util.regex) --
.NET and C# --
PHP --
Python --
RUBY --
JavaScript --
PCRE --
Apache Web Server --
vi Editor --
Shell tools
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