Mastering Regular Expressions

Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulatingtext and data. They are now standard features in a wide range oflanguages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.NETand C# (and any language using the .NET Framework), PHP, andMySQL. If you don't use regular expres [...]
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Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulatingtext and data. They are now standard features in a wide range oflanguages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.NETand C# (and any language using the .NET Framework), PHP, andMySQL. If you don't use regular expressions yet, you will discover in thisbook a whole new world of mastery over your data. If you already usethem, you'll appreciate this book's unprecedented detail and breadth ofcoverage. If you think you know all you need to know about regularexpressions, this book is a stunning eye-opener. As this book shows, a command of regular expressions is an invaluable skill. Regular expressions allow you to code complex and subtle text processing that you neverimagined 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 become 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 becoming 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 regularexpression functions, in addition to enhanced PHP coverage in thecentral "core" chapters. Furthermore, this edition has beenupdated throughout to reflect advances in other languages, includingexpanded in-depth coverage of Sun's java.util.regexpackage, which has emerged as the standard Java regex implementation.Topics include: A comparison of features among different versions of manylanguages and tools How the regular