- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Introduction: Why I Wrote This Book
- Choose a Text Editor
- Making Your Choice
- Create a Project Directory
- Start Small: Create a Test File
- Build on Your Success
- Great Power, Great Responsibility
- Summing Up
- What Is “Software”?
- Software Life Cycle
- Source Code—Where It All Starts
- Input and Output
- Memory and Variables
- Summing Up
- 3. Getting to Know Your Computer
- 4. Build Tools
- Build Your Own Build
- Watch This!
- Summing Up
- 5. Data (Types), Data (Structures), Data(bases)
- 6. Regular Expressions
- Understanding Brackets from [A-Za-z]
- A Pattern for Phone Numbers
- I Need My s
- Flags
- When Will You Ever Use Regex?
- 7. if, for, while, and When
- 8. Functions and Methods
- Code Encapsulation
- Code Reuse
- Scope
- Summing Up
- 9. Programming Standards
- 10. Documentation
- 11. Planning
- 12. Testing and Debugging
- 13. Learning to Fish: How to Acquire a Lifetime of Programming Knowledge
- 14. Building Your Skills
- Open Source Projects
- Free Online Education
- Paid Education
- Summing Up
- 15. Advanced Topics
- Glossary
- Index
- Code Snippets
Data Extraction
My very first programming project was to use regular expressions to extract data about books from a very large (1MB) text file. That project could be the reason I am particularly fond of capturing groups. When I saw regular expressions turn an unusable 30,000-page report into a useful spreadsheet, I was hooked.
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