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Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes View Larger Image | Ben Forta
Sams, Paperback, Published February 2004, 146 pages, ISBN 0672325667 | List Price: $16.99
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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:
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Match characters sets
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Match repeating characters (using minimums and maximums if needed)
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Match (or ignore) based on case
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Build sub-expressions
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Use all of the special characters
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Work with excape sequences
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Use POSIX classes to simplify complex expressions
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Use back-references
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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
Introduction.
1. Introducing Regular Expressions.
Understanding the Need. How Regular Expressions
Are Used. So What Exactly Is a Regular Expression? Using Regular Expressions.
Before You Get Started. Summary.
2. Matching—Single Characters.
Matching Literal Text. Matching Any Characters.
Matching Special Characters. Summary.
3. Matching Sets of Characters.
Matching One of Several Characters. Using
Character Set Ranges. "Anything But" Matching. Summary.
4. Using Metacharacters.
Escaping Revisited. Matching Whitespace
Characters. Matching Specific Character Types. Using POSIX Character Classes.
Summary.
5. Repeating Matches.
How Many Matches? Using Intervals. Preventing
Over Matching. Summary.
6. Position Matching.
Using Boundaries. Using Word Boundaries.
Defining String Boundaries. Summary.
7. Using Subexpressions.
Understanding Subexpressions. Grouping
with Subexpressions. Nesting Subexpressions. Summary.
8. Using Backreferences.
Understanding Backreferences. Matching
with Backreferences. Performing Replace Operations. Summary.
9. Looking Ahead and Behind.
Introducing Lookaround. Looking Ahead.
Looking Behind. Combining Lookahead and Lookbehind. Negating Lookaround.
Summary.
10. Embedding Conditions.
Why Embed Conditions? Using Conditions.
Summary.
Appendix A: Regular Expressions in Popular Applications and Languages.
grep. JavaScript. Macromedia ColdFusion.
Macromedia Dreamweaver. Macromedia HomeSite (and ColdFusion Studio). Microsoft
ASP. Microsoft ASP.NET. Microsoft C#. Microsoft .NET. Microsoft Visual
Studio .NET. MySQL. Perl. PHP. Sun Java.
Appendix B: Regular Expression Solutions to Common Problems.
North American Phone Numbers. U.S. ZIP
Codes. Canadian Postal Codes. United Kingdom Postcodes. U.S. Social Security
Numbers. IP Addresses. URLs. Complete URLs. Email Addresses. HTML Comments.
JavaScript Comments. Credit Card Numbers. Summary.
Appendix C: The Regular Expression Tester.
Understanding the Regular Expression Tester
Application. Obtaining a Copy of the Application.
About the Author
Ben Forta is Allaire Corporation's product evangelist for the
ColdFusion product line. Ben has over 15 years of experience in the computer
industry, and spent 6 years as part of the development team responsible
for creating OnTime, one of the most successful calendar and group-scheduling
products, with over one million users worldwide. Ben is the author of the
popular ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, and the more recent
Advanced ColdFusion 4 Application Development Kit.
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