0 Regular Expressions Cookbook

Description

Regular Expressions Cookbook provides more than 100 recipes to help you crunch data and manipulate text with regular expressions. Regular Expressions Cookbook offers step-by-step for some of the most common tasks involving this tool, with recipes for C #, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and VB.NET
With this book

• Understand the basics of regular expressions through a concise tutorial
• Use regular expressions effectively in several programming and scripting languages
• Learn how to validate and format input
• Manage words, lines, special characters, and numerical values
• Find solutions for using regular expressions in URLs, paths, markup, and data exchange
• Learn the nuances of more advanced regex features
• Understand how regular expressions' APIs, syntax, and behavior differ from language to language
• Write better regular expressions for custom needs

You are a beginner or an experienced user, Regular Expressions Cookbook will help deepen your knowledge of this tool is unique and irreplaceable. You can learn powerful new tricks, avoid language-specific gotchas, and save valuable time with a huge library of solutions proved difficult, real-world problems.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction to Regular Expressions
Chapter 2 Basic Regular Expression Skills
Chapter 3 Programming with Regular Expressions
Chapter 4 Validation and Formatting
Chapter 5 Words, Lines, and Special Characters
Chapter 6 Numbers
Chapter 7 URLs, Paths, and Internet Addresses
Chapter 8 Markup and Data Interchange

Product Details

Title: Regular Expressions Cookbook
Author: Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Formats: Print Ebook Safari Books Online
Print: May 2009
Ebook: June 2009
Pages: 510
Print ISBN:978-0-596-52068-7 | ISBN 10:0-596-52068-9
Ebook ISBN:978-0-596-80278-3 | ISBN 10:0-596-80278-1

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