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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 651.8424
EAN: 9781590594414
Edition: 1
ISBN: 159059441X
Label: Apress
Manufacturer: Apress
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 289
Publication Date: December 06, 2004
Publisher: Apress
Studio: Apress
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...a handy book to have. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it. This book is a good reference for those more interested in simply getting the job done.
— Jack Herrington, Code Generation Network
Regular Expressions are an essential part of programming, but they sure are hard to come to grips with, aren't they? Fortunately, we have the answer for you! Regular Expression Recipes provides you with all the open source regular expressions you'll ever need, and explains how to use each one. This way, you can learn by example, rather than muddling through countless pages of explanatory syntax.
Author Nathan A. Good includes syntax references only when necessary. Languages covered include Perl, PHP, grep, vim, Python, and shell. Web and applications developers, and system administrators will find the examples both accurate and relevant. And this book acts as a useful reference to keep handy for those moments when an answer is needed fast.
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If you have trouble understanding regular expressions then this book will clear all that up. This was an invaluable resource for quickly adding some regulard expressions to a project I was working on. Expression strings can be tricky to undertand at times, this book gave great details into what each piece of the expression string would match on. This resource saved my team a few hours of research, trial and error time, by giving us a great basis to start from. Another excellant resource to have on you shelf.
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When I saw the title of this book, I was excited at the prospect of a book filled with detailed regular expression examples. Unfortunately, it didn't pan out that way.
Spread over 285 pages, the book lists 100 tasks that you can accomplish with regular expression. As the solution, the author not only gives a regular expression, but also a complete source code snippet in Perl. Most of the recipes also show the same solution (using the same regular expression) in a different programming language. Many recipes have solutions in PHP or Python. Some also have solutions for Vim (a UNIX text editor) and UNIX shell scripting.
Obviously, the examples have a heavy bias towards UNIX and open source. If you're a Windows programmer, you may want to look at "Regular Expression Recipies for Windows Programmers" instead. It's essentially the same book, with almost the same list of recipes, but with the examples redone in C# and VB.
Each recipe also has a "how ... Read More
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Regular expressions are very powerful, but extremely cryptic to read and/or understand. Nathan A Good's book Regular Expression Recipes - A Problem-Solution Approach (Apress) does a good job in showing you practical applications of regular expressions in multiple languages.
Chapter List: Words and Text; URLs and Paths; CSV and Tab-Delimited Files; Formatting and Validating; HTML and XML; Coding and Using Commands; Index
Good basically takes a number of sample problems, like finding similar words or validating U.S. dates, and then shows how the task can be done in various languages using regular expressions. Most of the solutions have two or more language examples: Perl, PHP, Python, Vim, GNU grep, or sed. In addition to showing you the statement that will do the task, he also gives a brief explanation on how the statement works and why it does what it does. This definitely wouldn't be the book you'd get in order to learn about regular expressions, but it'd be ... Read More
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If you spend time working writing applications that have to do pattern matches and/or replacements, you know about some of the intricacies of regular expressions. For many people they can be an arcane hodgepodge of odd characters, but they don't have enough time (or interest) to really understand how to code them. Nathan A. Good has written Regular Expression Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach for those people. In its relatively slim 289 pages, he offers 100 regular expressions in a cookbook format, tailored to solve problems in one of six broad categories (Words and Text, URLs and Paths, CSV and Tab-Delimited Files, Formatting and Validating, HTML and XML, and Coding and Using Commands).
Regular expressions are not restricted to just the Perl or shell environments, so Nathan offers variations for Python, PHP, and VIM as well. In most cases the translation is relatively straight-forward, but in a few cases a different environment may have (or lack) additional facilities, ... Read More
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Whether you are using Perl, PHP, Python, grep, sed, or any other program that uses regular expressions you will eventually have a problem trying to figure out just how to do something. That is where this book comes in handy. If you need to resolve a peculiar programming problem then this is the book you will want by your side. If the expression doesn't work, or doesn't provide the correct output this is the best place to turn to figure out what is going on. Or, if you want to do something different then you might want to turn here first to look for ideas on how to attack the problem. Since this is a problem and solution oriented approach it provides a solution in Perl, PHP, Shell Script, and Vim. Regular Expression Recipes: A Problem-Solutions Approach is a highly recommended resource and does an excellent job of describing in plain English how to define the problem, how to work on it, and how to get the results you want. This is the ultimate guide to regular expressions.
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