Regular Expressions Cookbook
by Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan
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This cookbook provides more than 100 recipes to help you crunch data and manipulate text with regular expressions. Every programmer can find uses for regular expressions, but their power doesn't come worry-free. Even seasoned users often suffer from poor performance, false positives, false negatives, or perplexing bugs. Regular Expressions Cookbook offers step-by-step instructions 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, you will: * Understand the basics of regular expressions throug
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Some years ago I went through Regular Expressions Cookbook, By Steven Levithan, Jan Goyvaerts and can't recommend it enough.
on “You Should Learn Regex” ↗…regular expressions show up quite often. I'd like to get a solid understanding of them, but no online tutorial seems to be sufficient. I've seen that the books like Mastering Regular Expressions and Regular Expressions Cookbook have great reviews on Amazon, but I'm wondering if it would be overkill to get a full book on something that I would only be using every so often. I've also considered getting a reference book on regex,…
on “Ask HN: Do I need a regex book?” ↗