Mastering Regular Expressions

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This book will get you up to speed on the productivity secrets that will make your life easier: regular expressions. Well-crafted regular expressions can reduce hours of tedious labor to a 15-second solution. Now a standard feature in a wide range of languages and popular tools including Perl, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, MySQL, VB.NET, and C# (and any language using the .NET Framework) regular expressions will allow you to code complex and subtle text processing that you never imagined could be automated. Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition, now includes material on PHP and its powerful regular expressions. This edition has been updated throughout to reflect advances in other languages, including expanded in-depth coverage of Sun's java.util.regex, with special attention to the many differences between Java 1.4.2 and Java 1.5/1.6. Topics include: A comparison of features among many languages and tools How a regular expression engine works Optimization (major savings available here!) Matching only what you want, not what you don't Sections and chapters on individual languages Written in the lucid, entertaining tone that makes a complex topic become crystal clear to programmers, and filled with solutions to difficult real-world problems, Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition, offers a wealth of information that you can put to immediate use to craft elegant, time-saving solutions to a wide range of issues.

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Jeffrey Friedl was raised in the countryside of Rootstown, Ohio, and had aspirations of being an astronomer until one day he noticed a TRS-80 Model I sitting unused in the corner of the chem lab (bristling with a full 16K of RAM, no less). He eventually began using Unix (and regular expressions) in 1980, and earned degrees in Computer Science from Kent (BS) and the University of New Hampshire (MS). He did kernel development for Omron Corporation in Kyoto, Japan for eight years before moving in 1997 to Silicon Valley to apply his regular-expression know-how to financial news and data for a little-known company called "Yahoo!" When faced with the daunting task of filling his copious free time, Jeffrey enjoys playing Ultimate Frisbee and basketball with friends at Yahoo!, programming his house, and feeding the squirrels and jays in his back yard. He also enjoys spending time with his wife Fumie, and preparing for the Fall 2002 release of their first "software project" together.