Regular Expressions Cookbook
by Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan
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Author: Jan Goyvaerts, Steven LevithanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-29
ISBN: 0596520689
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
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Book Review: A Great Resource
Summary: 5 Stars
This is another excellent item in the O'Reilly Cookbook series. It covers a lot of ground and the writing is clear and concise. If you want to get good good at RegEx this this is the book to get.
Even though there's an introductory chapter on RegEx, I think you need to be somewhat familiar with RegEx to make good use of this book. Yu don't need to be an expert to use this book, but I suggest spending time with the chapters 1 and 2, then playing with RegEx on your own before proceeding. The introduction gives you a list of RegEx tools to use. I recommend RegEx Buddy, which I've been using for 4+ years. I was writing my own RegEx application until I found it and decided to save my time for problems that hadn't been solved. RegEx Buddy helps you build RegExs and is also a great testing tool, where you can use real data to verify your design.
I haven't had time to go try everything out in the book, yet, but so far I haven't found mistakes. The book covers the .NET, Java, JavaScript, PCRE, Perl, Python, ad Ruby flavors of RegEx. It give examples in C#, VB.NET, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby. For all intents and purposes VB6 uses the .NET flavor, though the code implementation is not as clean. There are many good online articles that cover this topic (e.g. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818802).
The recipes are all practical, some fairly simple, some quite complex. What makes them all useful is the the way they're organized. There' s clear statement of the Problem, followed by an explanation of the Solution with the regular expression (in all flavors) and a specific language example. Section 3.5 gives all the language examples for its problem.
The Discussion sections are the best part of the book. Each recipe gets a through explanation of what goes into the RegEx creation (or the code implementation). You'll learn how to think more effectively in RegEx from these discussions. It's not just the recipes you're getting, but the principles behind designing with RegEx.
The only weak point of the book is that there's not a separate index for the recipes. However, the table of content is sufficient for that.
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