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Introducing Regular Expressions: Unraveling Regular Expressions, Step-By-Step

Introducing Regular Expressions: Unraveling Regular Expressions, Step-By-Step

Fitzgerald, Michael

Paperback

Programming

Publisher Price: $49.99

ISBN10: 1449392687
ISBN13: 9781449392680
Publisher: Oreilly Media
Published: Aug 28 2012
Pages: 151
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.45 Width: 7.04 Depth: 9.19
Language: English

If you're a programmer new to regular expressions, this easy-to-follow guide is a great place to start. You'll learn the fundamentals step-by-step with the help of numerous examples, discovering first-hand how to match, extract, and transform text by matching specific words, characters, and patterns.

Regular expressions are an essential part of a programmer's toolkit, available in various Unix utlilities as well as programming languages such as Perl, Java, JavaScript, and C#. When you've finished this book, you'll be familiar with the most commonly used syntax in regular expressions, and you'll understand how using them will save you considerable time.

  • Discover what regular expressions are and how they work
  • Learn many of the differences between regular expressions used with command-line tools and in various programming languages
  • Apply simple methods for finding patterns in text, including digits, letters, Unicode characters, and string literals
  • Learn how to use zero-width assertions and lookarounds
  • Work with groups, backreferences, character classes, and quantifiers
  • Use regular expressions to mark up plain text with HTML5

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