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Regular Expressions Cookbook--New from O'Reilly
Detailed Solutions in Eight Programming Languages

Sebastopol, CA--Every programmer can find uses for regular expressions,
but their power doesn't come worry-free. Even seasoned users often suffer
from poor performance, false positives, false negatives, or perplexing
bugs. "Regular Expressions Cookbook" (O'Reilly Media, $44.99 USD) offers
step-by-step instructions for some of the most common tasks involving this
tool, with recipes for C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and
VB.NET.

Many books have been published to ride the wave of regular expression
adoption. Most do a good job of explaining the regular expressions syntax
along with some examples and a reference. But there aren't any books that
present solutions based on regular expressions to a wide range of
real-world practical problems dealing with text on a computer and in a
range of Internet applications. This cookbook provides more than 100
recipes to help you crunch data and manipulate text with regular
expressions.

With the help of this book, you will:

- Understand the basics of regular expressions through a concise tutorial
- Use regular expressions effectively in several programming and scripting
languages
- Learn how to validate and format input
- Manage words, lines, special characters, and numerical values
- Find solutions for using regular expressions in URLs, paths, markup, and
data exchange
- Learn the nuances of more advanced regex features
- Understand how regular expressions' APIs, syntax, and behavior differ
from language to language
- Write better regular expressions for custom needs

Whether you're a novice or an experienced user, "Regular Expressions
Cookbook" will help deepen your knowledge of this unique and irreplaceable
tool. You'll learn powerful new tricks, avoid language-specific gotchas,
and save valuable time with this huge library of proven solutions to
difficult, real-world problems.

Advance Praise
"This is a well-researched book, full of information. I learned a number
of new tricks just by reading the introductory chapter."
--Nikolaj Lindberg, computational linguist, STTS Speech Technology
Services

"'Regular Expressions Cookbook' provides elegant solutions for immediate
problems. Overall, I am stunned at the attention to detail in the
recipes."
--Zak Greant, open technology advocate and strategist

About the Authors
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.

Steven Levithan is a leading JavaScript regular expression expert and runs
a popular regular expression centric blog at
http://blog.stevenlevithan.com. Expanding his knowledge of the regular
expression flavor and library landscape has been one of his hobbies for
the last several years.

For more information about the book, including table of contents, index,
author bio, and samples, see:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520687

Regular Expressions Cookbook
Jan Goyvaerts & Steven Levithan
ISBN: 9780596520687
Print Book: $44.99 USD, Ebook: $31.99 USD
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