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Regular Expressions Cookbook: Detailed Solutions in Eight Programming Languages 2nd Edition

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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

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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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 2nd edition (October 2, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 609 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1449319432
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1449319434
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.08 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.38 x 9.4 inches

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Ozzin

Works, you can pick and choose subject you need.

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2023

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Like writing style, you can read all over the book and choose what you need to learn or use.

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Alex F.

To The Point, Balanced, Concise, Useful.

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2015

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Recently, I was tasked with implementing of a password validation - a trivial task to those who deal with this kind of a problem on a frequent basis. I did not fall into the category. Needless to say, I was looking for not just a "recipe", so to speak, but also, for a little bit extra; in that particular situation, I had to come up with solutions for .NET, JavaScript and Java. God bless Google and all the wealth of information you can find on the Internet nowadays. But we all know it's that abundance that, sometimes or all the times, can make it difficult to find the answer you need.
Based on the fact I have given FIVE stars to the book, you may guess I was happy to find the information I needed to solve my problem.The book provides wealth of information on the syntax of regular expressions and their different flavors. The book represents a very well balanced fusion of the regular expression basics and details, which makes it a very valuable aid to any software developer.

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MattDMo

Great as a learning tool and a reference

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2016

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I maintain the Python Improved syntax highlighting language definition for the Sublime Text code editor, and needed to get up to speed on regexes in general, plus have a good handy reference at hand where I could quickly look stuff up. I browsed through a number of regex titles from O'Reilly and elsewhere, and finally decided on this one because of the reviews and structure. I have not been disappointed in the least. The recipe-based format is great for finding exactly what you need quickly ("How do I match a sequence ahead without capturing it?"), and the multi-language explanations are great for transitioning from one language to another. I primarily use Python and Oniguruma (the regex engine used by Ruby), but also need to run PCRE searches as well, and this book has been great for learning the small differences between them. It's always within arm's reach at my desk, and along with regex101.com has been a fantastic resource for learning this arcane yet incredibly powerful language.

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Josh

Sure, why not buy it?

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2023

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This is a pretty big book and admittedly, this can mean that some of the concepts are quite elaborated on (perhaps too much). It’s not a bad book, but I would recommend also getting some other books.

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RL

Best book I seen on regular expressions

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2022

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Best reference book you will find on regular expressions.

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Old Desert Lizard

I was confused on RegEx before... this book cleared it up for me!

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2016

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This was a good purchase. Normally I'm not a big fan of "cookbook" style programming guides, but RegEx was kicking my butt... so I had to do something! As a .Net programmer who also occasionally dabbles in other environments, I really appreciated the approach of separate descriptions for each environment.

The range of examples is broad - in a good sense. Most of them are practical, real-world applications for most programmers, so understanding what they're trying to accomplish really helped in understanding the "how" of the implementation.

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Giovanni Girelli

Good content, poor quality

Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2021

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So far, I like the contents of the book (I also purchased Friedl's book and I like them both), but the quality is dissapointing. The pages are very thin and the book doesn't seem to be of durable quality, and also did not arrive in good condition. That's a shame.

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Jim Davidson

If you are interested in regex, this book and ...

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2015

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If you are interested in regex, this book and "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Friedl should be at the top of your list.

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Maciel S.

Me ha encantado es justo lo que quería

Reviewed in Spain on February 13, 2018

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Este libro lo estaba esperando con ansias, es justo lo que quería trae todos los temas que me interesan y muy bien explicados

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Víctor Cruz

Excelente libro

Reviewed in Mexico on January 28, 2017

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No es un libro que requiera constante lectura y que lo leas de primero a fin. Más bien, es un libro para aquellos quienes comenzamos con expresiones regulares y que, durante nuestro aprendizaje, tenemos dudas de cómo o por qué usar una u otra cosa.

El libro se enfoca en darnos "recetas" (de ahí el cookbook) sobre cómo resolver ciertos problemas. Además de incluir la solución para diversos lenguajes, nos provee una basta explicación del por qué la solución funciona.

Sin duda, la mejor ayuda sobre RegEx que recibí.

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Gordon

Regular Expressions

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2012

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Very comprehensive and clear in everything it covers. I would have liked an appendix that listed the operators with simple examples. Even so this will be very useful.

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Sigi

Sehr gutes Buch

Reviewed in Germany on October 10, 2012

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Finde das Buch super. Viele fertige Regex um sofort Erfolg zu haben. Man spart sich so sehr viel Zeit und bisher habe ich bei der Verwendung keine Fehler gehabt.

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assumes more knowledge than I expected. This is not ...

Reviewed in Canada on June 8, 2017

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assumes more knowledge than I expected. This is not a fault, just something to think of when you're looking for a first book on REs

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