Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes

RegEx is supported in all major development environments for use in editingand working with code and will thus appeal to anyone using these tools. Inaddition ev... » 

RegEx is supported in all major development environments for use in editingand working with code and will thus appeal to anyone using these tools. Inaddition every JavaScript developer should be using RegEx but most dont asit has never been taught to them properly before. Developers using ASP CColdFusion Java JSP PHP Perl Python and more can and should be usingRegEx and so every one of them is a potential reader too. The reader of thisbook will learn how to Match characters sets Match repeatingcharacters using minimums and maximums if needed Match or ignore basedon case Build subexpressions Use all of the special charactersWork with excape sequences Use POSIX classes to simplify complexexpressions Use backreferences Use lookbehind operators Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes is a tutorial bookorganized into a series of easytofollow 10minute lessons. These welltargeted lessons teach you in 10 minutes what other books might take hundredsof pages to cover. Instead of dwelling on syntax terminology and arcaneexamples and scenarios this book takes a very handson approach to solving theneeds of the majority of RegEx users who simply need to manipulate data. «