For the time being, you can peruse Word and (crude) HTML versions of the 10 tutorial chapters of my book. I've reached the 2/3 milestone for the manuscript, and should have the entire work done and being edited again in a month. Hopefully by then it will appear on Manning's page of upcoming titles.

I welcome almost any comments on the information and exercises. Be warned that this site may close down at any time, or at least become password protected. Also, be aware that the content is in a state of flux, and stuff may be added (like some missing summaries and exercises) or removed at any point. Therefore, please refrain from commenting "you wrote 'chapter XXX' -- is that a typo?" or "there are no exercises for chapter N." Rather, let me know if I overlook something you would have expected to read, or whether I get too technical early on, or whether I dumb it down too much. Helpful stuff like that.

Also, real-world examples of the usefulness of look-ahead and look-behind would be appreciated (and creditted appropriately).

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Jeff[japhy]Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker.
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