Mastering regular expressions: understand your data and be more productive - jeffrey e. f. friedl

This updated third edition now includes a full chapter devoted to PHP and itspowerful and expressive suite of regular expression functions, in addition toenhanced PHP coverage in the central core chapters.

Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text and data.

They are now standard features in a wide range of languages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.

NET and C# (and any language using the .

NET Framework), PHP, and MySQL.

If you dont use regular expressions yet, you will discover in this book a whole new world of mastery over your data.

If you already use them, youll appreciate this books unprecedented detail and breadth of coverage.

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 never imagined 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 youve mastered regular expressions, theyll 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 regular expression functions, in addition to enhanced PHP coverage in the central core chapters.

Furthermore, this edition has been updated throughout to reflect advances in other languages, including expanded in-depth coverage of Suns java.

regex package, which has emerged as the standard Java regex implementation.

Topics include: A comparison of features among different versions of many languages and toolsHow the regular expression engine worksOptimization (major savings available here!)Matching just what you want, but not what you dont wantSections and chapters on individual languagesWritten in the lucid, entertaini.