Regexp Power (O'Reilly)

[Posted June 11, 2003 by cook]

Simon Cozens explains the capabilities of Perl's regular expressions on O'Reilly. "Everyone knows that Perl works particularly well as a text processing language, and that it has a great many tools to help the programmer slice and dice text files. Most people know that Perl's regular expressions are the mainstay of its text processing capabilities, but do you know about all of the features which regexps provide in order to help you do your job?"