Regular Expression Pocket Reference: Regular Expressions for Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, C, Java and .NET
July 10th, 2010 by CGI & PHP.com
- ISBN13: 9780596514273
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This handy little book offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application. Ideal as a quick reference, Regular Expression Pocket Reference covers the regular expression APIs for Perl 5.8, Ruby (including some upcoming 1.9 features), Java, PHP, .NET and C#, Python, vi, JavaScript, and the PCRE regular expression libraries.
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July 10th, 2010 at 7:19 am
"Regular Expression Pocket Reference" is one of the hottest and most controversial books of the year! Stubblebine is a fluent polemicist with a gift for the Menckenesque invective…and he can harness such language to subtle, syllogistic argument.
Written with a great deal of passion, the real source of this book's strength – and it's usefulness – was it's painstaking marshalling of evidence. This has got to be the most popular nonfiction book in America.
More important that Stubblebine's other works, "Clown management for midgets", this book addresses the much broader issues of Java and Perl and even delves into the murky recesses of C#.
Read it! Live it!
Rating: 5 / 5
July 10th, 2010 at 8:34 am
This is a great handy reference to compare several popular tools supporting regrex.
While I found it may have an error. In page-70, say "Both(vi and vim) use a DFA match engine.", while in another book "Computer Science and Perl Programming" page-91, the author of "Mastering Regular Expressing" Jeffrey Friedl said "Perl has always used an NFA engine, as does vi, sed, GNU emacs, Python, Tcl, expect, and most version of grep". I knew these two engine are very much different, and vim regrex does support capturing and backreference(NFA engine). So I guess there's something wrong in this reference. Could the author check up this issue please? thanks.
Rating: 3 / 5
July 10th, 2010 at 8:39 am
Based on the .NET chapter it would appear that the author tackled too many implementations. It looked like all of the .NET stuff came from the SDK, sans discussion & examples.
Developers worrying about an expression to be executed on several different platforms might find this type of overview helpful. How many folks do that though?
Rating: 3 / 5
July 10th, 2010 at 10:05 am
One of the better OReilly books. Very well written, great examples and explanations. I highly recommend.
Rating: 4 / 5
July 10th, 2010 at 11:25 am
Most developers know how to write regular expressions, almost none of them can read them. And if you are saying that you can. Well congratulations to you. You are one of the 0.1% of developers that can or you are one of those who think they can.
The books physical appearance is so compact that it has become a permanent item on my working desk. And is often used.
Rating: 4 / 5