Name: Introducing Regular Expressions
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Author: Michael Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781449392680

Introducing Regular Expressions

Michael Fitzgerald

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 aug 2012

Regular expressions remain a difficult part of the puzzle when learning how to program. Commonly used for sifting through large chunks of text, regexes are incredibly powerful although they may appear daunting to the newcomer. And variations among languages and environments make them even harder to master.

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Preface; Who Should Read This Book; What You Need to Use This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: What Is a Regular Expression?; 1.1 Getting Started with Regexpal; 1.2 Matching a North American Phone Number; 1.3 Matching Digits with a Character Class; 1.4 Using a Character Shorthand; 1.5 Matching Any Character; 1.6 Capturing Groups and Back References; 1.7 Using Quantifiers; 1.8 Quoting Literals; 1.9 A Sample of Applications; 1.10 What You Learned in Chapter 1; 1.11 Technical Notes; Chapter 2: Simple Pattern Matching; 2.1 Matching String Literals; 2.2 Matching Digits; 2.3 Matching Non-Digits; 2.4 Matching Word and Non-Word Characters; 2.5 Matching Whitespace; 2.6 Matching Any Character, Once Again; 2.7 Marking Up the Text; 2.8 What You Learned in Chapter 2; 2.9 Technical Notes; Chapter 3: Boundaries; 3.1 The Beginning and End of a Line; 3.2 Word and Non-word Boundaries; 3.3 Other Anchors; 3.4 Quoting a Group of Characters as Literals; 3.5 Adding Tags; 3.6 What You Learned in Chapter 3; 3.7 Technical Notes; Chapter 4: Alternation, Groups, and Backreferences; 4.1 Alternation; 4.2 Subpatterns; 4.3 Capturing Groups and Backreferences; 4.4 Non-Capturing Groups; 4.5 What You Learned in Chapter 4; 4.6 Technical Notes; Chapter 5: Character Classes; 5.1 Negated Character Classes; 5.2 Union and Difference; 5.3 POSIX Character Classes; 5.4 What You Learned in Chapter 5; 5.5 Technical Notes; Chapter 6: Matching Unicode and Other Characters; 6.1 Matching a Unicode Character; 6.2 Matching Characters with Octal Numbers; 6.3 Matching Unicode Character Properties; 6.4 Matching Control Characters; 6.5 What You Learned in Chapter 6; 6.6 Technical Notes; Chapter 7: Quantifiers; 7.1 Greedy, Lazy, and Possessive; 7.2 Matching with *, +, and ?; 7.3 Matching a Specific Number of Times; 7.4 Lazy Quantifiers; 7.5 Possessive Quantifiers; 7.6 What You Learned in Chapter 7; 7.7 Technical Notes; Chapter 8: Lookarounds; 8.1 Positive Lookaheads; 8.2 Negative Lookaheads; 8.3 Positive Lookbehinds; 8.4 Negative Lookbehinds; 8.5 What You Learned in Chapter 8; 8.6 Technical Notes; Chapter 9: Marking Up a Document with HTML; 9.1 Matching Tags; 9.2 Transforming Plain Text with sed; 9.3 Appending Tags; 9.4 Transforming Plain Text with Perl; 9.5 What You Learned in Chapter 9; 9.6 Technical Notes; Chapter 10: The End of the Beginning; 10.1 Learning More; 10.2 Notable Tools, Implementations, and Libraries; 10.3 Matching a North American Phone Number; 10.4 Matching an Email Address; 10.5 What You Learned in Chapter 10; Regular Expression Reference; Regular Expressions in QED; Metacharacters; Character Shorthands; Whitespace; Unicode Whitespace Characters; Control Characters; Character Properties; Script Names for Character Properties; POSIX Character Classes; Options/Modifiers; ASCII Code Chart with Regex; Technical Notes; Regular Expression Glossary; Colophon;