Beginning Regular Expressions
- 10h 16m
- Andrew Watt
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2005
- Supported by all major databases, scripting languages, and programming languages, regular expressions are powerful "wild-card" text-processing tools used by programmers to find, validate, modify, or edit information
- Covering a wide range of languages and databases-including JavaScript, ASP.NET, and Access-this book will appeal to the many programmers put off by the Perl-Unix focus of existing regular expressions books
- Packed with easy-to-follow examples and exercises, the book helps regular expressions newcomers learn by doing
About the Author
Andrew Watt is an independent consultant and experienced author with an interest and expertise in XML and Web technologies. He has written and coauthored more than 10 books on Web development and XML, including XPath Essentials and XML Schema Essentials. He has been programming since 1984, moving to Web development technologies in 1994. He's a well-known voice in several influential online technical communities and is a frequent contributor to many Web development specifications.
In this Book
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Introduction to Regular Expressions
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Regular Expression Tools and an Approach to Using Them
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Simple Regular Expressions
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Metacharacters and Modifiers
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Character Classes
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String, Line, and Word Boundaries
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Parentheses in Regular Expressions
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Lookahead and Lookbehind
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Sensitivity and Specificity of Regular Expressions
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Documenting and Debugging Regular Expressions
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Regular Expressions in Microsoft Word
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Regular Expressions in StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Writer
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Regular Expressions Using findstr
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PowerGREP
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Wildcards in Microsoft Excel
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Regular Expression Functionality in SQL Server 2000
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Using Regular Expressions with MySQL
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Regular Expressions and Microsoft Access
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Regular Expressions in JScript and JavaScript
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Regular Expressions and VBScript
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Visual Basic .NET and Regular Expressions
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C# and Regular Expressions
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PHP and Regular Expressions
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Regular Expressions in W3C XML Schema
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Regular Expressions in Java
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Regular Expressions in Perl
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