Book Description
RegEx is supported in all major development environments (for use in editing and working with code) and will thus appeal to anyone using these tools. In addition, every JavaScript developer should be using RegEx, but most don't as it has never been taught to them properly before. Developers using ASP, C#, ColdFusion, Java JSP, PHP, Perl, Python, and more can (and should) be using RegEx, and so every one of them is a potential reader too. The reader of this book will learn how to:
Match characters sets
Match repeating characters (using minimums and maximums if needed)
Match (or ignore) based on case
Build sub-expressions
Use all of the special characters
Work with excape sequences
Use POSIX classes to simplify complex expressions
Use back-references
Use look-behind operators
Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes is a tutorial book organized into a series of easy-to-follow 10-minute lessons. These well targeted lessons teach you in 10 minutes what other books might take hundreds of pages to cover. Instead of dwelling on syntax, terminology, and arcane examples and scenarios, this book takes a very hands-on approach to solving the needs of the majority of RegEx users who simply need to manipulate data.
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Introduction
- Lesson 1. Introducing Regular Expressions
- Lesson 2. Matching Single Characters
- Lesson 3. Matching Sets of Characters
- Lesson 4. Using Metacharacters
- Lesson 5. Repeating Matches
- Lesson 6. Position Matching
- Lesson 7. Using Subexpressions
- Lesson 8. Using Backreferences
- Lesson 9. Looking Ahead and Behind
- Lesson 10. Embedding Conditions
- Appendix A. Regular Expressions in Popular Applications and Languages
- Appendix B. Regular Expression Solutions to Common Problems
- Appendix C. The Regular Expression Tester
- Inside Back Cover
- Index