By the end of this week, I'll have signed a contract from Manning (the company that published Damian Conway's "Object Oriented Perl") for the publication of "Learning Perl's Regular Expressions" (a tentative title, of course, but that's besides the point).

A warm and hearty thanks to all you here who've supported me, either by helping to edit, or by goading me to do this in the first place. PerlMonks.org will receive a big "thank you" in the acknowledgements.

japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker

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Re: LPRE becomes a reality
by mischief (Hermit) on May 31, 2001 at 13:03 UTC
    Congratulations! Do you have any idea when you expect to have it finished?
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      The final manuscript is expected to be completed by the end of December. This book is not going to be competitor to Friedl's MRE2, but rather a good starting point. MRE is mastery, and I wouldn't suggest reading it cold-turkey, regex-experience-wise. Also, it talks a lot about how regex engines work, which might not be a matter of interest to beginners in the Magick Arts.

      The Pod-turned-HTML version of the book that I'm working on will remain online (and I will continue to update it) until it is requested by Manning that public display of the content be stopped. ;)

      That is all for now. I'll keep a log of publishing happenings and such at my home node (I think).

      japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker

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        The Pod-turned-HTML version of the book that I'm working on will remain online (and I will continue to update it) until it is requested by Manning that public display of the content be stopped. ;)

        Coincidently, this morning I saw these comments made by Tim O'Reilly at Nature's web site regarding the future of e-publishing and the like. One thing that he comments on is that while early on in ORA publishing, when the text for the books were available both on line and as well as in print, competitors would print out their own copies of these texts and sell them, in more recent years the value-added benefits of ORA publishing have caused many of these other publishers to avoid this practice, so that the text of the books can remain online while the book is in print.

        Now, I've had previous experience with Manning, and they're getting better in improving what their publishing brings to adding value (in other words, generally much better than a lot of other computer book publishers, though not quite at ORA's level), but I would suspect that either Manning will begin to follow ORA's lead in this area, or that you could easily argue O'Reilly's point to Manning should the need arise.

        IMO if you can provide me a print version that is easily 'pick up and read at any point', as well as a online version that is indexed, searchable, and enhanced in any way, you've got me sold twice.

        Dr. Michael K. Neylon - mneylon-pm@masemware.com || "You've left the lens cap of your mind on again, Pinky" - The Brain
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Re: LPRE becomes a reality
by djw (Vicar) on May 31, 2001 at 15:23 UTC
    Hey that is awesome japhy! I'll be the first in line at my geek book store to buy a copy!
    Good luck on your new project.

    Thanks,
    djw
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Re: LPRE becomes a reality
by princepawn (Parson) on May 31, 2001 at 23:22 UTC
    Be sure in this book to mention that regular expressions are not always the easiest or best approach to a task, with several perl functions being more viable in some cases and parsing modules such as Parse::Yapp and Parse::RecDescent in other cases.
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Re: LPRE becomes a reality
by Beatnik (Parson) on Jun 03, 2001 at 14:28 UTC
    Congrats japhy !

    /me puts LPRE on Books wishlist...

    Greetz
    Beatnik
    ... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.
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