As for learning Regex's the "Learning Perl" (a.k.a. the llama) Is probably the best at getting the general gist of Regex's in perl. But if you really want to attempt to understand them "Mastering Regular Expressions"(a.k.a The owl) is what you are looking for. Be prepared to learn MORE than you want to know if you go that route. I've read it twice now and I'm still grappling with it. Not that it isn't good. It's packed with great information. The subject matter is just hard to grep. Eewww bad pun . . .:)

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