Regular Expressions Cookbook

ISBN-13: 9781449319434 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 520 str.

Steven Levithan

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Take the guesswork out of using regular expressions. With more than 140 practical recipes, this cookbook provides everything you need to solve a wide range of real-world problems. Novices will learn basic skills and tools, and programmers and experienced users will find a wealth of detail. Each recipe provides samples you can use right away.This revised edition covers the regular expression flavors used by C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and VB.NET. You'll learn powerful new tricks, avoid flavor-specific gotchas, and save valuable time with this huge library of practical solutions.

• Learn regular expressions basics through a detailed tutorial
• Use code listings to implement regular expressions with your language of choice
• Understand how regular expressions differ from language to language
• Handle common user input with recipes for validation and formatting
• Find and manipulate words, special characters, and lines of text
• Detect integers, floating-point numbers, and other numerical formats
• Parse source code and process log files
• Use regular expressions in URLs, paths, and IP addresses
• Manipulate HTML, XML, and data exchange formats
• Discover little-known regular expression tricks and techniques