Learning Regular Expressions

Learning Regular Expressions image
ISBN-10:

0134757068

ISBN-13:

9780134757063

Author(s): Forta, Ben
Edition: 1
Released: May 15, 2018
Format: Paperback, 144 pages
to view more data

Description:

Learn to use one of the most powerful text processing and manipulation tools available
Regular expression experts have long been armed with an incredibly powerful tool, one that can be used to perform all sorts of sophisticated text processing and manipulation in just about every language and on every platform. That’s the good news. The bad news is that for too long, regular expressions have been the exclusive property of only the most tech savvy. Until now.
Ben Forta's Learning Regular Expressions teaches you the regular expressions that you really need to know, starting with simple text matches and working up to more complex topics, including the use of backreferences, conditional evaluation, and look-ahead processing. You’ll learn what you can use, and you’ll learn it methodically, systematically, and simply.
Regular expressions are nowhere near as complex as they appear to be at first glance. All it takes is a clear understanding of the problem being solved and how to leverage regular expressions to solve them.

  • Read and understand regular expressions
  • Use literal text and metacharacters to build powerful search patterns
  • Take advantage of advanced regular expression features, including lookahead and backreferences
  • Perform powerful search-and-replace operations in all major professional editing tools
  • Add sophisticated form and text processing to web applications
  • Search for files using command-line tools like grep and egrep
  • Use regular expressions in programming languages like JavaScript, Java, PHP, Python, Microsoft .NET, and C#, as well as in DBMSs including MySQL and Oracle
  • Work with phone numbers, postal codes, social security numbers, IP addresses, URLs, email addresses, and credit card numbers
Contents at a Glance
1 Introducing Regular Expressions 2 Matching Single Characters 3 Matching Sets of Characters 4 Using Metacharacters 5 Repeating Matches 6 Position Matching 7 Using Subexpressions 8 Using Backreferences 9 Looking Ahead and Behind 10 Embedding Conditions 11 Regular Expression Solutions to Common Problems
Appendix A Regular Expressions in Popular Applications and Languages

























We're an Amazon Associate. We earn from qualifying purchases at Amazon and all stores listed here.

Want a Better Price Offer?

Set a price alert and get notified when the book starts selling at your price.

Want to Report a Pricing Issue?

Let us know about the pricing issue you've noticed so that we can fix it.