Regular Expressions Cookbook by Steven Levithan

Regular Expressions Cookbook by Steven Levithan

Take the guesswork out using regular expressions to search and manipulate text. With this updated cookbook, you have access to hundreds of proven recipes for today's most popular programming languages - including C#, Java, JavaScript (including XRegExp), Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and VB.NET. As useful as regular expressions can be for programmers, their power doesn't come worry-free. This guide will deepen your understanding, no matter how much experience you have with this reliable tool. You'll learn powerful new tricks, steer clear of flavor-specific gotchas, and save valuable time with this huge library of solutions to difficult, real-world problems.Understand the basics of regular expressions through a concise tutorial Use regular expressions effectively in several programming and scripting languages Learn how to validate and format input Manage words, lines, special characters, and numerical values Find solutions for using regular expressions in URLs, paths, markup, and data exchange Discover the nuances of more advanced regex features Experience how regular expressions' APIs, syntax, and behavior differ from language to language Write better regular expressions for custom needs

Jan Goyvaerts runs Just Great Software, where he designs and develops some of the most popular regular expression software. His products include RegexBuddy, the world's only regular expression editor that emulates the peculiarities of 15 regular expression flavors, and PowerGREP, the most feature-rich grep tool for Microsoft Windows. Steve Levithan works at Facebook as a JavaScript engineer. He has enjoyed programming for nearly 15 years, working in Tokyo, Washington D.C., Baghdad, and Silicon Valley. Steven is a leading JavaScript regular expression expert, and has created a variety of open source regular expression tools including RegexPal and the XRegExp library.

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ISBN 13	9781449319434
ISBN 10	1449319432
Title	Regular Expressions Cookbook
Author	Steven Levithan
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	O'Reilly Media
Year published	2012-10-02
Number of pages	520
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