Re: Regular Expressions

I am starting to study up on Regular Expressions.

Then, by all means, get a copy of the Hip Owls book and read it.

Fun fact: Once upon a time, I calculated the time savings for some projects that came from applying regexes (which I learned about from this book - my first O'Reilly and Perl book ...). It came out that this book is literally worth its weight in gold!

Once you really get regexes, they will transform the way you think about data. And they are everywhere - in your editor, on the command line, even Word has some (admittedly funny ones).

Christian Lemburg
Brainbench MVP for Perl
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Re: Re: Regular Expressions by andye (Curate) on Jun 27, 2001 at 15:02 UTC
Then, by all means, get a copy of the Hip Owls book and read it. Seconded! It's great. I'm particularly amused by the part where it says "Of course, knowing about such-and-such isn't necessary for a basic understanding of regular expressions - which is why we'll be going into it in great detail". (Well, it says something like that - the book's at home and I'm not). andy. /me was reading it the week before last on a Greek beach - wish I was still there!	[reply]

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Re: Re: Regular Expressions
by andye (Curate) on Jun 27, 2001 at 15:02 UTC

Then, by all means, get a copy of the Hip Owls book and read it.

Seconded! It's great.

I'm particularly amused by the part where it says "Of course, knowing about such-and-such isn't necessary for a basic understanding of regular expressions - which is why we'll be going into it in great detail".

(Well, it says something like that - the book's at home and I'm not).

andy.

/me was reading it the week before last on a Greek beach - wish I was still there!

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