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Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition

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Publisher: O''Reilly

Pub Date: July 2002

ISBN: 0-596-00289-0

Pages: 484

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

The Need for This Book

Intended Audience

How to Read This Book

Organization

Typographical Conventions

Exercises

Links, Code, Errata, and Contacts

Personal Comments and Acknowledgments

Chapter 1.
Introduction to Regular Expressions

Section 1.1.
Solving Real Problems

Section 1.2.
Regular Expressions as a Language

Section 1.3.
The Regular-Expression Frame of Mind

Section 1.4.
Egrep Metacharacters

Section 1.5.
Expanding the Foundation

Section 1.6.
Personal Glimpses

Section 1.7.
Quiz Answer

Chapter 2.
Extended Introductory Examples

Section 2.1.
About the Examples

Section 2.2.
Matching Text with Regular Expressions

Section 2.3.
Modifying Text with Regular Expressions

Section 2.4.
Quiz Answers

Chapter 3.
Overview of Regular Expression Features and Flavors

Section 3.1.
A Casual Stroll Across the Regex Landscape

Section 3.2.
Care and Handling of Regular Expressions

Section 3.3.
Strings, Character Encodings, and Modes

Section 3.4.
Common Metacharacters and Features

Section 3.5.
Guide to the Advanced Chapters

Chapter 4.
The Mechanics of Expression Processing

Section 4.1.
Start Your Engines!

Section 4.2.
Match Basics

Section 4.3.
Regex-Directed Versus Text-Directed

Section 4.4.
Backtracking

Section 4.5.
More About Greediness and Backtracking

Section 4.6.
NFA, DFA, and POSIX

Section 4.7.
Summary

Section 4.8.
Quiz Answers

Chapter 5.
Practical Regex Techniques

Section 5.1.
Regex Balancing Act

Section 5.2.
A Few Short Examples

Section 5.3.
HTML-Related Examples

Section 5.4.
Extended Examples

Chapter 6.
Crafting an Efficient Expression

Section 6.1.
A Sobering Example

Section 6.2.
A Global View of Backtracking

Section 6.3.
Benchmarking

Section 6.4.
Common Optimizations

Section 6.5.
Techniques for Faster Expressions

Section 6.6.
Unrolling the Loop

Section 6.7.
The Freeflowing Regex

Section 6.8.
In Summary: Think!

Section 6.9.
Quize Answers

Chapter 7.
Perl

Section 7.1.
Regular Expressions as a Language Component

Section 7.2.
Perl''s Regex Flavor

Section 7.3.
Regex-Related Perlisms

Section 7.4.
The qr/···/ Operator and Regex Objects

Section 7.5.
The Match Operator

Section 7.6.
The Substitution Operator

Section 7.7.
The Split Operator

Section 7.8.
Fun with Perl Enhancements

Section 7.9.
Perl Efficiency Issues

Section 7.10.
Final Comments

Chapter 8.
Java

Section 8.1.
Judging a Regex Package

Section 8.2.
Object Models

Section 8.3.
Packages, Packages, Packages

Section 8.4.
Sun''s Regex Package

Section 8.5.
A Quick Look at Jakarta-ORO

Chapter 9.
.NET

Section 9.1.
.NET''s Regex Flavor

Section 9.2.
Using .NET Regular Expressions

Section 9.3.
Core Object Details

Section 9.4.
Static "Convenience" Functions

Section 9.5.
Support Functions

Section 9.6.
Advanced .NET

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